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So i figured it would be nice to go over how everyone got into herps.
ill start with my story.
I grew up in South Georgia on a cattle farm we rented in a place call Hartsfield. I consider myself to have gotten my start there. I was a country boy lol. I caught stuff all the time and brought it home or to my papa jacks house (old fello in his 70s him and his wife were our only neighbors and were kinda like my adopted grandparents). I would catch garden snakes and water snakes caught a couple of timber rattlers and 1 diamond back. I had no fear lol of course i was taught to respect the animals but i wasnt taught that i should be scared of them. Now im at age 6 and i catch a black snake about 2 foot long and didnt look close enough to see that it was a water moccasin (sp). Got bit nearest hospital was 45 minutes away (the reason i brought up papa jack). Thank god papa jack was old country farm raised kinda guy he through a tourniquit on my arm and put some kinda wrap that smelled horrible (i mean HORRIBLE) on the bit wound. My arm never swole up and i only got a lil sick (went to the hospital and they said that nothing was wrong and the werent sure how my body had fought off the venom). God i wish that man was still alive so i could now express how much i appreciate everything he taught me and did for me. Anywayz thats my origins of loving reptiles lol.
ill start with my story.
I grew up in South Georgia on a cattle farm we rented in a place call Hartsfield. I consider myself to have gotten my start there. I was a country boy lol. I caught stuff all the time and brought it home or to my papa jacks house (old fello in his 70s him and his wife were our only neighbors and were kinda like my adopted grandparents). I would catch garden snakes and water snakes caught a couple of timber rattlers and 1 diamond back. I had no fear lol of course i was taught to respect the animals but i wasnt taught that i should be scared of them. Now im at age 6 and i catch a black snake about 2 foot long and didnt look close enough to see that it was a water moccasin (sp). Got bit nearest hospital was 45 minutes away (the reason i brought up papa jack). Thank god papa jack was old country farm raised kinda guy he through a tourniquit on my arm and put some kinda wrap that smelled horrible (i mean HORRIBLE) on the bit wound. My arm never swole up and i only got a lil sick (went to the hospital and they said that nothing was wrong and the werent sure how my body had fought off the venom). God i wish that man was still alive so i could now express how much i appreciate everything he taught me and did for me. Anywayz thats my origins of loving reptiles lol.
