As many of my readers here may know, I've been getting on YouTube quite a bit. One of the things that keeps me going back are looking at other peoples' videos about snakes, lizards, and fish. It makes me think, I miss my birds, and fish and all those other exotics that I used to have!!! I used to keep small herps, and one creature that I've always wanted to keep, but never got the chance to was poison dart frogs. In captivity, they lose most of their toxic properties, but they still retain their glamorous colors! I've been seriously thinking about getting into collecting herps of different kinds!! I'm thinking about it. I mean, if Anna is going to go live in Bozeman, I need something here to occupy my time! I can get into all the different herp shows, which I just find sooooo fascinating!!!! MUCH better than dog shows! LOL! A lot less politics are involved in herp shows. And herp breeders aren't nearly as unkind as dog breeders. I've been to several herp expos, and the breeders there are much friendlier than many of the dog exibitors I've met at dog shows. There are annual herp shows going on in this state and in Oregon every year, several times a year.
I have a list of species I want too. They're species I've studied, but I'll tell you nothing beats one-on-one learning. I don't mean I'm going to get common species like iguanas, bearded dragons and leopard geckos. No way! I'm going for the rarer species. I used to keep herps and I love them!! I used to have pythons, corn snakes, milksnakes, geckos of varying types. I remember an old Tokay gecko I used to have. That thing was MEAN as heck!!!!! It hated my dog Andy. Every time Andy got within 3 feet of that gecko's tank, it would open it's mouth wide and hiss! Then it would strike. Poor old Andy!! It never bit him, but it would strike really good! Good enough to make a loud crashing sound on the side of the tank! I've seen some people who have tamed tokays, and that's cool! I'd love to have one. They charge more for the hand tamed tokays though.
I personally like the natural colors, I don't go for these man-made morphs. They aren't as pretty in my eyes. No one can paint like Mother Nature can!! hehe! I have to be careful of what I get. No giant pythons or boas. They get too big and could pose a threat to my babies. So nothing like that!!! If I do get any boids, they'd have to be smaller, like the ball pythons, which is what I had last time. They wouldn't be big enough to see my babies as food. But nothing like a burmese or reticulated python! But mostly my focus will be on smaller creatures, like small lizards and frogs. I've always liked frogs, and always enjoyed keeping them. Now I think I am ready to take on the poison dart frogs. That'll be loads of fun!!!
I won't be starting this until Anna goes to Bozeman. Not that I think she wouldn't enjoy it, but I want it to give me something to do and look foreward to while she's away. I wonder if they still sell dormice as pets? Those were awfully cute too!
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