Epiphany - (awakenings)

[KITKAT]

Hmmm...

When I was about three years old (this is one of my earliest memories) I was playing on the porch, and a grasshopper flew and landed near me.

I was frightened and ran into the house.

My mother came out and explained to me that I could watch the grasshopper, play with him, and he would not hurt me as long as I did not hurt him.

I played a game of stomp and fly with him for awhile.

As I grew older, I always brought in bugs in jars, and would have also brought in frogs, snakes, injured baby birds, and whatever else I could find, but my mother would not tolerate the herps.

I often kept pets like this and hid them from my mother.

As a teenager, I had a private room in the basement, and kept a cricket frog in a terrarium, hoping he would sing for me. He later escaped, and after some months, I found him living in a hole in the floor near the entry to our garage, where he found ample food. I left him there and it was our little secret.

So I don't think I ever had an epiphany... I always wanted snakes and other such critters as pets, and when I moved away and got married, my husband worked for the DNR, so I was free to do what I wanted, with some agreed-upon limits.

[crzy_kevo]

well as a kid when i went to go visit my dad out in the middle of nowhere in michigan my sister and i would go out and catch garters just to look at them
then about 6-7 years ago i was doing a school project on a self contained eco system and thought how cool it would be to have a garter snake in there and thought it would be cool to have one for a pet
however i never got around to finding one and even if i had my mom wouldn't have let me keep it

so now that im all grown up and living on my own when i found george i just had to keep him i have always loved snakes

so he just makes the perfect pet for me.

[Odie]

I would find them and play with them, take them home as a child. My Mom would tell my to "Put it back were I got it!!" Even if that ment walking two miles. About two years ago My wife (Robin) came home, after her morning walk, with Strip and we both got infected We are the proud caregivers to 5 Garters now