Do people think your weird?

[spider_mad]

Originally Posted by Jinx

Going on a bit why people like reptiles...
I think as well as our own personal love and reasons for loving reptiles and the likes, we dont get many in this country. certainly not the variety that inhabit the rest of the world!
I still think my gold fish are a amazing and my tropical fish. To think they live in the water in some other country and their here surviving with me!
Reptiles just fascinate me, ive got something that usually lives and thrives in Australia!! wow! LMAO It's just fantastic! (or whatever other country your reps may come from)
But if you want to know why on a more personal level, i love reptiles cause ive always loved dinosaurs!
Thought it was SOOOO amazing how dinosaurs/reptiles hatched out of eggs like birds!
Now i think it's odd that birds hatch out of eggs. lmao


now you know why people think im weird. lol i'll shut up now.

I was reading a magazine on Bulgaria (oh parents bought apartment out there to rent to tourists) and there was an article on the reptiles and amphibians that habit Bulgaria. When it comes to holiday out there I will certainly be having a good dig around. There are many lizards, tree frogs newts and frogs but also snakes. Horned Adder, viper, grass snake,Worm snake (not sure if snake or legless lizard) Eurasian sand boa, leopard snake and aparantly common corn snake. The common corn snake and grass snake can be regularly found in peoples gardens. One thing I would like to know what they mean in the article by Common corn snake is it a new species of (possibly european corn snake) this article has got me very intrigued. Aparantly the Eurasian sand boa is popular pet due to its pattern but rare. Didnt mean to hijack the thread but reading about all these herps got me all giddy. Does anyone know anything about the common corn snake in Europe (Bulgaria)?

[spider_mad]

Probably very little data in those days not like today keep snakes and hope for the best in those days. I envy the fact that certain parts of US the weather and temps are ideal for certain snakes that artificial heating and heating stats can be done away with and so much cheaper with natural weather.

[NicolaMe]

My parents have just accepted the fact that I am weird.. I had red bellied Piranhas when i was little as pets, they were so beautiful and they never ever bit me when I had my hand in the tank cleaning them out.....I always wanted a snake or a lizard but they refused, saying when you get a house of your own.......well then I did get a house of my own, unfortunately with a husband in tow...who also didnt like anything not the "norm" but when he left it took me hmmmm all of about 3 months to get the pets i wanted and was interested in....started off with my beloved bearded dragon, i just took on board what the guy in the shop said and muddled through with him, only just in the past year or so have i started buying books on BD's and found that for the best part I am doing good with him.......(except leaving sky sports on for him all day cos he loves football and cricket, didnt say owt in the book about that)

My 6 year old is also just like me, but unlike when i was younger i allow him to have the pets he is interested in, he does have the most evil hamster in the world in his bedroom, but also a very stunning Chile Rose which is very very red rather than the usual pink and he is hoping to get an emporor scorpion at Doncaster Show

[Incubuss]

I was more of a weirdo when I never had exotic, lol. Most people think I'm weird when they find out I keep reptiles, but they are even more freekd out when they find out about my spider collection and that I have scorpions. For some reason most people think ALL scorpions WILL kill you if you are stung.

[spider_mad]

Species that are found throughout Bulgaria

Fire Salamander (Salamandra salamandra)
Common Newt (Triturus vulgaris) Alpine Newt (Triturus alpestris)
Crested Newt (Triturus cristatus)
Southern Crested Newt (Triturus karelinii)Danube
Crested Newt (Triturus dobrogicus)
Fire-bellied Toad (Bombina bomb
Yellow-bellied Toad (Bombina variegata)
Common Spadefoot (Pelobates fuscus)
Eastern Spadefoot (Pelobates syriacus)
Common Toad (Bufo bufo)
Green Toad (Bufo viridis)
Common Tree Frog (Hyla arborea)
Agile Frog (Rana dalmatina)
Balkan Stream Frog (Rana graeca)
Grass Frog (Rana temporaria)
Marsh Frog (Rana ridibunda)
Edible Frog (Rana kl. esculenta)
European Pond Terrapin (Emys orbicularis)
-Balkan Terrapin (Mauremys rivulata)
Spur-thighed Tortoise (Testudo graeca)
Hermann’s Tortoise (Testudo hermanni)
Kotschy’s Gecko (Mediodactylus kotschyi)
Snake-eyed Skink (Ablepharus kitaibelii)
Slow Worm (Anguis fragilis)
European Glass Lizard (Pseudopus apodus)
Sand Lizard (Lacerta agilis)
Eastern Green Lizard (Lacerta viridis)
Balkan Green Lizard (Lacerta trilineata)
Viviparous Lizard (Zootoca vivipara)
Meadow Lizard (Darevskia praticola)
Snake-eyed Lizard (Ophisops elegans)
Common Wall Lizard (Podarcis muralis)
Erhard’s Wall Lizard (Podarcis erhardii)
Balkan Wall Lizard (Podarcis taurica
Worm Snake (Typhlops vermicularis)
Sand Boa (Eryx jaculus)
Large Whip Snake (Dolichophis caspius)
Dahl’s Whip Snake (Platyceps najadum)
Reddish Whip Snake (Platyceps collaris)
Smooth Snake (Coronella austriaca)
Aesculapian Snake (Zamenis longissimus)
Four-lined Snake (Elaphe quatuorlineata)
Blotched Snake (Elaphe sauromates)
Leopard Snake (Zamenis situla)
Grass Snake (Natrix natrix)
Dice Snake (Natrix tessellata)
Montpellier Snake (Malpolon monspessulanus)
Cat Snake (Telescopus fallax)
Nose-horned Viper (Vipera ammodytes)
Adder (Vipera berus)
Orsini’s Viper (Vipera ursinii
Asp Viper (Vipera aspis)

[Jinx]

hmmm, ive got one....i keep some shed skin pieces from different species in these pots (pots like the ones you get nails and screws in where 5 pots all screw into each other).
I like to collect weird things and i also have hatched eggs in the pots from green anoles, stenodactylus and pictus geckos that ive bred.

I even get weird looks from reptile keepers when they see those pots.

Some of them are momento's, like my lovely skink that died.
am i weird for doing that? people keep shed snake skins!
(i have a rattle snake shed skin that i love that i got from TBUK)
lol

edit: nice pieces of shed, not anything i find. lol the rest goes in the bin. i dont hog it all over the years just a nice piece in the pot from a new species. o.0

[nc-duk-alike]

bit the thing is tho its now proven that more people keep reptiles than they do cats and dogs now.

[Jinx]

Originally Posted by nc-duk-alike

bit the thing is tho its now proven that more people keep reptiles than they do cats and dogs now.

does'nt that depend on the amount of people with reptiles that also keep cats and dogs? if you count those ones then surely more people keep cats and dogs?

lol

[ratboy]

yes they do.... and they are right

[Robbie]

My mother has a friend who asks if I have any snakes out in the livingroom before she steps foot in the house. She thinks I'm odd.
I've been turning peoples opinions though. Just last weekend I had my big male hoggie down at the corner shop. The guy in there loves my animals. His customers were quite interested aswell.