Some of my pets

[marty5150]

Here are some photos of our pets. we need to update our pics. We currently have 4 Cornsnakes a Lavendar (Speedy), Okatee (Aniya), Snow (Snowy), and Albino (Poky).
1 Red Tail Boa (Sid)
1 Ball Python (Aria)
1 Western Hognose (Chubby Checkers)
2 Milk Snakes (We havent thought of a name yet)
1 Blue Diamond Iguania (Yoshi)
1 Bearded Dragon (Sparty)
1 Mali Uromastyx (Rufus)
5 Leopard Geckos (Al, Bella, Dora, Bess, Havent decided on the last one)
1 Tokay Gecko (Took)
1 Softshell Turtle
1 Map Turtle
2 Cats (Ellie and Keller) Keller is deaf with one blue and one green eye.
2 Ferrats (Jules and Gypsy)
2 Rats (Chubby Balls and ernie) My snakes didnt eat one time and my girlfriend loves fancy rats.
It seems like alot of animals when you put them down this way but over time we have rescued a good number of these animals from poor pet stores in our area. alot of the animals were in bad shape due to the pet stores having no one that was knowledgeable in herps or even comfortable working with them. these are all the pics i have so far.
Aria
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/RCA_0140.JPG
Sid
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/sid_in_brooks_arms.jpg
Yoshi
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/DSCF0002.JPG
Dora
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/DSCF0008.jpg
Bella
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/DSCF0007.jpg
Sparty
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/DSCF0017.jpg


We Also got Several Pets from the SPCA

[marty5150]

Speed And Poky (bad pic)
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/Speedy_Poky.JPG
Jules
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/DSCF0020.jpg
Took
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/DSCF0001.JPG
Chubby Balls (to me rats are just Snake food. i have switched over to frozen rats that way i dont end up with more fuzzies)
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/DSCF0018.jpg

[tikichick]

Cute critters! What's a Blue Diamond iguana?

[zooplan]

nice collection, it looks like a whole zoo:D

[Snaky]

Nice collection :)

[drache]

nice bunch of critters there

[adamanteus]

That's quite a collection you have there, Martin. But no Garter Snakes (yet)?!!:D

[krystalirelan@southslope.]

awesome collection.

[Stefan-A]

Nice collection of animals you have there. :)

[enigma200316]

very nice collection, but you need some Garters in there too.....;)

and Chubby Balls what a name..........ROTFLMAO:D:D

[Lori P]

Chubby Balls!!! ROFL!!!

Nice family of critters you have there-- but I want to see Chubby Checkers!! And oh, yeah, we need to get you some garters... :-)

[marty5150]

Cute critters! What's a Blue Diamond iguana?

Blue Diamond Iguana are plain old green iggy's but with blue coloring throughout

[marty5150]

I've been looking at all the different garter's and have not made up my mind about what i would like. So far two of my favorites are San Fransisco and Santa Cruz. I went to high school in just south of Santa Cruz they kinda make me miss home also they are very good looking snakes

[tikichick]

Blue Diamond Iguana are plain old green iggy's but with blue coloring throughout

Ah ok. So basically an attempt to put a brand name on a South American ig. Thanks :)

[tikichick]

I've been looking at all the different garter's and have not made up my mind about what i would like. So far two of my favorites are San Fransisco and Santa Cruz. I went to high school in just south of Santa Cruz they kinda make me miss home also they are very good looking snakes

The SF's really catch my eye. I wouldn't mind getting one of those myself. I'll have to look up the Santa Cruz variety.

[marty5150]

Some more pics
Chubby
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/Chubby.JPG
Gypsy
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/ferret_2.JPG
Jackie (i forgot to mention him)
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/Jackie.JPG
Keller (deaf)
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/Sleepy_Keller.JPG
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/Keller.JPG

[marty5150]

Ellie
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/Elli.JPG
Bess
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/Bess.JPG
Anaya
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/Anaya.JPG

[adamanteus]

Some nice animals, Martin.:)

[marty5150]

Rufus
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/Rufus_2.JPG
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/Rufus.JPG
Map
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/Map.JPG

[Charlet_2007]

WELCOME to the forum! nice to know im not the only one with a zoo lol That turtle looks like a yellow belly slider.. might not be but thats what it looks like in the pic there..

[anji1971]

Nice little collection!! I love looking at everyone's pets, since I have so little room for many here!

[tikichick]

Wow, you have all kinds of cool critters!

I had a calico named Ellie!
http://inlinethumb27.webshots.com/34522/2378215360010112803S200x200Q85.jpg (http://pets.webshots.com/photo/2378215360010112803xIWwsK)

[marty5150]

Very nice cat. how long did you have her

[tikichick]

Thanks :) She was a sweetheart. She died this year and was around 18 years old. I had her for the past 10 years. Her original owner was run over by a car and killed in a hit and run. Most of my pets are hard luck stories, her's was the most unique!

[Lori P]

LOVE all your pics!!!! Chubby is sooo cute... I have a huge thing for hognose now... MUST get one. :-) All the others are great, your kitties are gorgeous. Thanks for sharing!!!!

[marty5150]

your welcome i am enjoying them

[Sid]

Welcome to the forum, Marty. Nice collection. Of all your pets names, the Red-tail sort of jumps out at me for some reason....:rolleyes:

[marty5150]

Welcome to the forum, Marty. Nice collection. Of all your pets names, the Red-tail sort of jumps out at me for some reason....:rolleyes:
wonder why. that was the easiest one for use to come up with. this weekend i will try to get somemore pics of the ones i havent posted yet.. and add one of jules in the dresser drawer. lately gypsy has been very interested in yoshi but i think he just wants to whip her. they are free roam during the day under supervision.

[marty5150]

Thanks :) She was a sweetheart. She died this year and was around 18 years old. I had her for the past 10 years. Her original owner was run over by a car and killed in a hit and run. Most of my pets are hard luck stories, her's was the most unique!
that is sad. sorry for your loss but that was a long life. the oldest one i ever had is about 16 now the ex got her though.

[marty5150]

just as a lil history on myself i have always had numerous animals. as a child we never had less than 6 dogs and at the most 10 ( mostly malamuts, huskys and wolves yes wolves my mother still has several of them at home) of all the breeds of dogs i have owned i love basset's and wolves ( they are the most loyal and smart ones i have been around) we had cats, ducks, parrots etc. my girlfriend has had several dogs, cats, raccons, squirrels, boas. and her mother is a dog groomer. we are regulars at our pet stores. we go there when we just want to get out kinda like people go to parks. i do have lots of pets but i have always had lots of pets.

[Repfanatic]

2 Rats (Chubby Balls and ernie) My snakes didn't eat one time and my girlfriend loves fancy rats.

I am the rat loving girlfriend that "forced" my poor fuzzy hating boyfriend to keep these cute little guys. And his name is not Chubby Balls....it's Chubby Nuts. Oh, and the reason he switched to f/t was because his ball python is stupid and can't kill her food without getting hurt.

I'm sorry you have to see his poor spelling skills also. His speaking skills aren't much better. I'm trying to train him, but I'm pretty sure it's a hopeless case. I still love him though (most of the time). :p

I'm Brook BTW. We might try to get a garter sometime. I like the Santa Cruz garters the most, but we'll see. Well, I'm finished ragging on the boyfriend for now, so have a good one and enjoy our animal pictures.

[tikichick]

That's awesome! I bet raccoons are a trip!

[Charlet_2007]

i had a baby racoon at one time when i was a kid they turn out to be mean little pets.. had to donate it to the local zoo.. I do miss it from time to time tho.. :(

[anji1971]

I think a wolf would be awesome!!:cool:
I know my daughter would be overjoyed -- she is all about wolves lately. Where does one get a pet wolf, by the way? Although my husband would probably toss me out on my rear if I brought one home.........:D:D

[Stefan-A]

Why not just buy a dog, it's the same species anyway. ;)

[marty5150]

Belive it or not my sis and I (see Brook i can sometimes say it correctly. but spelling thatz hrd) when we where 7 and 8 found our first one out in the woods. it looked kinda like one of our dogs. It took a liking to us and we thought it was a stray so we brought it home. ( this is most definitly not a behavior i have instilled in my children.) my mother took it to the vet and got it a clean bill of health. He told us it was a wolf, by the time we found that out it was already a member of the family. smart, smart dogs it knew if you where family or not. no one was allowed in the house if they where not family unless we brought them in. but he never attacked, i belive he would've if we had ever been in a life and death situation. i remember at christmas we bought our dogs presents (chew toys etc) wrap them and place them under the tree about a week before christmas. he would dig out his present and keep guard over it but would'nt open it until christmas morning when we told him he could. he passed years ago from old age. i am not sure were my mother got the ones she has now. but the father is just as smart she caught him one thanksgiving opening the fridge getting an 18 pound turkey out, closing the the fridge going out back and opening the the wrapper eating and them he buried the evidence. for about 2 months she had alot of food missing from the fridge and was thinking that the kids had been eating it and not telling her. after she caught the dog she dug around the area and found hundreds of empty wrappers in the ground.

as for why get a wolf. Why get one type of garter and not another. a wolve may be the species but so is a basset hound and a goldie but they have complete different looks and personalities. beside's most of our dogs where strays or rescues from the pound. i have only bought one dog in my life and that was my hound (floppy) the ex sold him i had no where to keep him.

I am pretty sure you can find breeders of hybrds for wolves am not sure.

[Stefan-A]

You're absolutely right, they have completely different traits. But that's also the reason why you shouldn't get a wolf and especially not a hybrid.

[Lori P]

I've had my share of wolf hybrids come into the rescue. It's a nightmare. I don't know why people breed them. So far, they have all had to be euthanised for aggression issues, tho it was not the wolves' fault... they were just being what they were. The hybrids are SO different from dogs it's not funny.

[Repfanatic]

i had a baby racoon at one time when i was a kid they turn out to be mean little pets.. had to donate it to the local zoo.. I do miss it from time to time tho.. :(

We took in the raccoon because my dogs had killed her mother. She did get rough, but not so much mean. We raised her i hopes to return her to the wild which happened when she was a year old. I had a few squirrels and other animals we sent back to the wild also. It's nice seeing them go back to where they belong.

[Repfanatic]

You're absolutely right, they have completely different traits. But that's also the reason why you shouldn't get a wolf and especially not a hybrid.
I agree with you. Getting a wolf is not for most people. We didn't "get" IT, it followed us home since my family is very good with dogs it just knew we where in charge.
For starters you have to be a very good pack leader. You must ensure that the dog knows all members of the family are pack leaders. Also all members need to know how to be. The owners also need to look at the attitude before getting it. It's the same with snakes there are several that should not be sold but are. I don't think most wolves are able to be pets. i also don't think most people are able to handle wolves as pets you really need to know how to handle them. I still stand by my statement that my wolves are the best dogs I have ever had but I don't think others should try it with out all the facts.

[marty5150]

The next post from Brook is from me she was logged in.

[marty5150]

the next post about the wolves

[anji1971]

You're absolutely right, they have completely different traits. But that's also the reason why you shouldn't get a wolf and especially not a hybrid.


I've had my share of wolf hybrids come into the rescue. It's a nightmare. I don't know why people breed them. So far, they have all had to be euthanised for aggression issues, tho it was not the wolves' fault... they were just being what they were. The hybrids are SO different from dogs it's not funny.

I sort of figured there would be some drawback to the wolf thing, but no worries, I wasn't totally serious about the inquiry.......it was more of a "Wow, that would be awesome!" thing, sort of in the way some people think big cats would be cool pets! Not realistic, just a really neat mental picture! ;)