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PasadenaTrudy

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18. I had a horned toad, too!

Reply to BlancheSplanchnik (Reply #14)

Tue Sep 10, 2013, 11:29 AM

Sep 2013

Salamanders made cute pets as did tadpoles. We called them pollywogs back in the day. Then it was fun watching them turn into frogs. Wonder how many kids get to experience this anymore?

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people and snakes are a trip [View all] backwoodsbob Sep 2013 OP

I read ya. mgc1961 Sep 2013 #1

I love snakes. I had two boa constrictors a few years ago. RebelOne Sep 2013 #3

I like snakes. They are interesting animals. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2013 #2

Snakes are cool! PasadenaTrudy Sep 2013 #4

me too....but I found that snakes are boring pets BlancheSplanchnik Sep 2013 #14

I had a horned toad, too! PasadenaTrudy Sep 2013 #18

Snakes rock. a la izquierda Sep 2013 #5

same here backwoodsbob Sep 2013 #6

I am a snake-o-phobe. grasswire Sep 2013 #7

Snakes, spiders, bees, wasps, most 'creepy crawlies'... Locut0s Sep 2013 #8

I hav always liked snakes. Palmetto bugs, now... nolabear Sep 2013 #9

I backwoodsbob Sep 2013 #10

oh and I saw my first backwoodsbob Sep 2013 #11

Are tower ants like fire ants? Big, termite-mound building fire ants? nolabear Sep 2013 #13

Amen to that. I had some childhood experiences that left m scarred for life! nolabear Sep 2013 #12

I hate snakes Art_from_Ark Sep 2013 #15

Snakes I can handle. NuclearDem Sep 2013 #16

I don't understand the hatred of snakes OR spiders. Respect, most definitely. Fear? Not so much Flaxbee Sep 2013 #17