The "you know your a herp addict when"thread

[Lori P]

LOL!! Very well done, Shanley!!

I know this should go in the dream thread, but, it works here too. I had the most detailed, amazing dream the other night that I inherited a HUGE reptile shop somehow... the owner had been gone two weeks and I spent the whole dream racing around frantically trying to clean, feed, water, and save the sick animals. It was one of those super realistic dreams. The reptiles were mostly ok, it was the feeder mice and rats and the hundreds of fish tanks that had fared badly. And I kept thinking, I can't run a reptile shop... I can't sell any of these animals!! lol

[deborahbroadus]

These are so funny! LMAO I fit so many!

A few more:

You're single but you turn down dates cause you need to take care of your animals.
You will only date men that like snakes.
You "kick to the curb" a boyfriend that handled one of your snakes "too roughly."
You drop another boyfriend that jokes about putting his ferret into one of your snake's rack.

[infernalis]

You buy your girlfriend a Savannah monitor for her birthday, and sneak an Asian green snake into the order since she is going to be so overwhelmed by the monitor, she won't even care about the snake in the box.

[reptile3]

Shanley those are great!!! I just laughed so much!! tHANKS

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

- You did not have a name in high school other than "snake girl"

- when you go to shows, random people walk up to you and say OMG, you are snake babe from (insert random site here), I know you!!!

- the most common pickup line guys use on you is "So I heard you like snakes, you wanna pet mine?"

- the other most common pickup line is "Oh, I have a snake. He's a one eyed spitting burmese python."

- you have to convince your mom on a daily basis that the bowl of dead rodents thawing on the counter HAS to be there.

- your mom calls you to tell you that she has fallen in love with the legless lizard, and after she mentioned that SHE, your MOTHER, who cringes at the site of said bowl of rodents...thawed 2 pinkies out on her very own and fed them to him, you view this as a major event in your life.

- you carry sterliziation pads, lubricant, and sexing probes at all times in your purse. (you should see the look on people's faces when they see those things in my purse LOL)

- your purse bears the photographs of two snakes in your own collection. Not your brothers or the dogs... your snakes.

- you frequently suffer from ECS. Empty cage syndrome.

- when the occasional hamster, mouse, parakeet or other small animal does not make it at work, (its rare but it happens) everyone knows to put it in a bag and stick it in the bottom part of the freezer for Shannon.

- The snake room is 100 times cleaner than the bedroom.

-The bedroom is slowly but surely becoming another snake room.

- you have already designed your future coffee table, end tables, and other furnitures to incorporate housing for snakes.

- you contemplate how to apply that idea to a bed.

- you are looking to buy a fridge that does NOT work!

- you constantly are looking at people's trash piles on trash night to make sure there are no good cages or furnitures that could BE cages.

- The reptile customers at your store refuse to be helped by anyone else but you.

- You had a snake's picture taken with Santa Claus.

- You had a professional photo taken of you and your dog, but also of course your favorite snake was there too.

- you get home from work starving, but you don't eat until you're done feeding snakes, and sometimes you just plain forget to eat.

- when drunk you begin incoherently venting about people that hate snakes.

- your boyfriend gets you an empty chocolate tin with a snake inside for Vday, and you do not care where the chocolates went. You have aleady recieved fine jewelry and a laptop from him on previous occasions, but this by far was the most well thought out BEST gift ever.

- you ask for gift cards to rodentpro.com, mud snakes, ten gallon tanks and hidey's for Xmas.

- you make excuses to yourself about why the fish tank really would be better off being dismantled and replaced with another herp enclosure.

- you often wonder if said fish contain thiaminase.

[infernalis]

Great list Shannon.

Friends bring their friends over to watch you feed the reptiles.

"That thing is huge" is said more times in your house than the sound track of an "off color" film.

[Lori P]

ROFLMAO Shannon.... I was eyeing my dad's cichlids the other day, as they've been breeding like mad... and all I could think was, are they garter safe???

[infernalis]

ROFLMAO Shannon.... I was eyeing my dad's cichlids the other day, as they've been breeding like mad... and all I could think was, are they garter safe???

Safe as Tilapia (P.S. google Tilapia)

[Lori P]

REALLY????? Omg.... omg..... wait till I tell him!!!!! LOL

[EdgyExoticReptiles]

yea i have a breeding pair of chicilids to feed their babies

REALLY????? Omg.... omg..... wait till I tell him!!!!! LOL