re: Another snake thread spinoff who keeps venomous snakes...let's see em

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I know this very well!!

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When I was a kid, my uncle hatched some blue racer eggs and gave us around 14 babies, which we kept in one tank in the bedroom. One night around 5 got out. Found one in my sister's shoe and one in my mom's bathroom. The rest disappeared. My mom was cool about that stuff though. My dad and uncle were hard core. My dad was bit by a Cottonmouth as a teen, and my uncle had 3 or 4 venomous snake bites plus a Gila monster bite while working at the zoo. My dad traded a 6 ft. Canebrake rattler for our first pet gator - it was in the front display case for years at the old snake farm on Hwy. 90 in Slidell back in the day. Some crazy frickers hung out at that place. There was one guy with 3 or 4 fingers missing who would still handle a big Mexican Green Rattlesnake that was "nice" - wouldn't even hold the head, he'd just let it crawl all over him.