Out of Pod Experience

I have a corn snake. They're really interesting reptiles, and easy to care for because they'll eat frozen food. Mine's not finicky at all-- you put the food there, in a minute it's gone.

The only word of caution is corn snakes are active, and they want to get out of the tank and cruise around. I feel like I need to take my snake out for some cruising time every day. Basically, that means snake-herding, to keep him/her from disappearing into the woodwork. They're quick, and if you take your eye off for a second, they're gone.

Used to have an Eastern painted turtle. Unfortunately, one night he/she suddenly died. I have no idea what caused that. A better pet than snakes are, in my opinion. Very gentle, and almost seem kind of affectionate. On warm days, we could take Turtle out in the yard and let him truck bask on the porch and around in the grass.

We used to have a crocodile.

congo african grey, rosy boa, and though not exactly "exotic" I'm getting some pure white parakeets in the coming weeks which I already have a new cage set up for.

Tortoises, turtles, snakes, crocodiles, birds ( and a hawk at that! ), and even an armadillo!

If we get some more exotic mammals we can start a zoo!

Any tarantula, scorpion, or giant centipede owners on here?

I squashed a few of those recently. A giant centipede got away and is hiding somewhere.

I keep an Irish Redheaded *****

I say keep... we're married and I worship her, but hey, trust me she is as exotic as I'd ever want to get.

When I was little I had a scorpion I caught myself

I lived in a very crappy part of the world where little kids go and play with deadly critters

I used to keep Tarantulas until the GF at the time insisted she wasn't spending another moment in my bed with that "gurt hairy spider" watching her, the threat of "lackonookie" decided matters and the spider went to my brother. These days I just have a cat.

I have ants. Camponotus herculaneus, Lasius niger and Messor barborus. I just got the Camponotus herculaneus a few weeks ago, one worker already got tangled up in the cotton closing off the test tube they are in and died... The other two Lasius niger colony queens died on arrival but it's no big loss. I also caught one queen myself, she is the most robust naturally. I had two Messor barborus queens but one just walked out the arena I built for them and disappeared.. I normally have some kind of chemical that deters them from leaving that arena but she just said "nope" and ****** off.

Women.

Ha ha, does your brother call that spider "Lackanookie"? That's a great name for any kind of crawly or slithery pet. I'd name my next one that, but eventually my kids would get old enough to understand the joke.

I used to have an African mongoose. Man, what a fun pet. Never had a ferret, but similar I guess. His favorite game was to be thrown across the room. He'd just roll across the floor and keep coming back for more. The only drawback is the things are continually hungry and always rooting around the premises for food. Once it grabbed my sister's rescued baby squirrel and hid behind the fridge crunching away on it. Pretty unpleasant for everybody, and Mom didn't like that much. Not long after that, it made off with an entire baked red snapper that had just been put on the dinner table. That's when I had to adopt it out to my friend.