Waited long enough

[NavyVet83]

So like most kids, Ive always wanted an unusual pet. In my case, its snakes. Mommy always said, when I have my own house I can do what I want. Well, me and my wife finally bought a house. Closed a few weeks ago (posted in here) and been moving and getting settled since. Now a finishing touch. I finally got the large snake I've always wanted. This girl has another 2ft or so of growing left, and I intend to feed her to support that growth lol...

 

[Racer88]

Snake gotta name?

 

[NavyVet83]

Snake gotta name?

Nagini... wife named it after the snake on Harry Potter.

 

[Bobster]

This girl has another 2ft or so of growing left, and I intend to feed her to support that growth lol...

Then what?

I'm at a party in my youth and a couple guys walk in with smaller constrictors resting on their shoulders, coiled up. I ask why don't they choke you out and one guy answers "they like the warmth of your body" as he peels the snake off his shoulders and puts it over my head. I was alarmed as the snake "readjusted" but then it just laid there as I walked around for about 5min before giving it back. It was about 20lbs or so.

I caught and collected local snakes when I was a tween. There was a large undeveloped area near a cement plant near my house I would walk to. There were a few random boards laying on the ground that would almost certainly have snakes under them when lifted in the afternoon. Nothing over 1' long. I had green and decay (brown) and garter snakes, occasionally a milk snake but they were not as "tame" as the others. My mom was deathly afraid of snakes and wouldn't let me keep them in the house so I had an insulated terrarium under the porch. I would play with them inside when mom wasn't around.

Once while playing with a snake, letting it slither on the floor, it ducked under a closed door and by the time I got the door open it had made its way into the baseboard heating and was lost. About a month later I heard my mom screaming from the basement and there it was, still alive, coiled around the basket of my bicycle... I had never told her I "lost" a snake inside...