rw-Lily will be getting her own pet

 Corn snakes make good pets!  They are pretty to look at and usually easy to handle.  They are escape artists tho, so batten down the hatches on Zorak's tank!!

Happy for Lily but ew....

aDorkable

What color was she considering that was "feisty"?

the Sunkissed pattern. Very pretty! I also have heard from another breeder that the Okeetee's can be a handful.

*sigh* I've got a big black snake living in my back yard right now (Glenda and I have already talked about this -- I like them just about as much as SHE does and it's my frigging yard!).  Guys have been doing work in our yard and I told him the guy who catches the snake and "relocates it" (OUTSIDE the city limits) gets a $50 Outback gift card from me.  (my original offer was for it dead, but I don't mind "relocated" as long as he doesn't have a map back to my place)

 Blacks do NOT make good pets -- they are described even in the snake afficionado stuff as "nervous" and "will bite" ... have seen corn snakes on my property and .... Gina, you're a better woman than me.   I could do ANYTHING but a snake. 

Are you guys gonna do Gator Land while you're here?  You'd probably love it. 

I think the timing is superb -- her age, how long-lived it should be, etc. 

*Shudder* Snakies give me the creeps! I didn't know that they had personalities.

I think this one is very pretty.

http://www.cornsnakes.net/gallery.php?catid=2&id=18

 Corn Snakes are a great for a first time snake owner!  I would also suggest a Ball Python as a first snake.  I have owned both and they are both very docile.  Corn snake are fast though so tell Lily to keep a good hold on it!! 

Congrats on the new arrival!  I'm afraid I'd be right there behind Glenda -  suitcase packed, feet tucked up and rolling out the front door.

Joyce

Bullymom

 Corn Snakes are a great for a first time snake owner!  I would also suggest a Ball Python as a first snake.  I have owned both and they are both very docile.  Corn snake are fast though so tell Lily to keep a good hold on it!! 

Yeah, I nearly had a snake a few years ago, first it was going to be a corn snake, then a friend of a friend had a ball python that needed a home.... then it turned out it was ill and not eating, so I went back to a corn snake, but in the end I didn't get one at all.    I have handled a lot of corn snakes though, and all I can say is - WATCH OUT!  A lot of snakes like to coil round your wrist and sit there comfortably, corns are NOT like that.  They are like legless hamsters.... They like to MOVE and they just GO....  You know when you hold a hamster and they won't stop running so you have to do the hand over hand thing?  Yeah, well, corns are like that.   

cool! One thing I did not like about Balls...boring colors really...and they just SIT there...LOL.

All I can say is "interesting pet choice".  I did like the "brother-eating snake comment...LOL

I leave the wildlife alone and it leaves me alone - a good arrangement methinks!  I enjoy it from a distance.

rwbeagles

so she wouldn't reccomend one for a child's first snake

((((GULP))))) 

I'm with Glenda -- better you than me, Gina!! LOL

Eeeeeeeeeee!!

 I've wanted a snake for a long time.  I think I'd rather go with a Ball Python though.  I like the just sit there kind.  They're more relaxing for me.  I'll take my dogs out if I want to play with something active. 

I never knew that snakes had personalities either until a few years ago.  A friend had a big Burmese Python(I think, I don't know, it was yellowish and about 5 feet long, albino something or other) and that thing loved me.  He would get out of his enclosure every time I went there and I'd end up with a snake wrapped around my waist by the time I'd been there for an hour.  Apparently he never did that to anyone else.  Once he got out during the winter and went missing for a week.  I found him behind the couch(ya, so not hidden, and I was mad a Jamie for not actively looking for him) curled up in a hard ball and sooooo cold.  He slowly wrapped himself around my waist and stayed there for about 3 hours warming up.   His name was Lucifer...

Fun! I can't wait to see pics of the snake she chooses. My first pet was a great, big, Californian rabbit, when I was 13. I couldn't do the snake feeding thing.

rwbeagles

One thing I did not like about Balls...boring colors really...and they just SIT there...LOL.

Well, you can find lots of different colored Ball Pythons but I do think you want to spend thousands of dollars on a snake!!!  I have seen the Pi-bald (sp) Ball Pythons for $20,000!!!  It's crazy how much money people will spend on a snake!!  One word of advice, don't let Lily get a Rat Snake.  They are highly aggressive!