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<blockquote data-quote="Tgotty90" data-source="post: 116831" data-attributes="member: 8413"><p>Alright guys, starting to see alot of new faces on here and been starting to ask myself the same question I get asked all the time. WHY IN THE WORLD DO WE DO THIS??? Lol I have alot of friends that ask me what my deal is and its the same story every time. I got my first T as a joke to mess with my nephew and the joke turned into a obsession. I had mentioned that we needed to add something new to the collection and a tarantula was the first thing that came to mind. My nephew bout slapped me and said "Scotty if you get one of those ill disown you". Well the next day I figured id surprise him and picked up a rose hair to bring home. He was mad at me at first but I assured him it would be fun and he slowly got more enthusiastic about our new pet as did I. Being scared of spiders as a kid made me wonder what I was doing and suddenly found myself watching this thing all the time, started to do a lil more research and discovered how beautiful these creatures really are. Since then I was hooked, 20 Ts later and my nephews grown more attracted to the subject as well. We're about to start a series of video care sheets for all our animals for his youtube channel as he's getting into making his own videos. Very exciting for me and him... At any rate I was curious to ask anyone who cares to share how they got into this hobby as well. Im sure this will be interesting.</p><p></p><p>NOTE: I've been dealing with exotics my whole life. My older brother and I started collecting geckos and agamidaes when I was just 7 years old and later snakes and chameleons as a got older. I've only been in the T hobby 4 or 5 years and just recently expanded my collection.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tgotty90, post: 116831, member: 8413"] Alright guys, starting to see alot of new faces on here and been starting to ask myself the same question I get asked all the time. WHY IN THE WORLD DO WE DO THIS??? Lol I have alot of friends that ask me what my deal is and its the same story every time. I got my first T as a joke to mess with my nephew and the joke turned into a obsession. I had mentioned that we needed to add something new to the collection and a tarantula was the first thing that came to mind. My nephew bout slapped me and said "Scotty if you get one of those ill disown you". Well the next day I figured id surprise him and picked up a rose hair to bring home. He was mad at me at first but I assured him it would be fun and he slowly got more enthusiastic about our new pet as did I. Being scared of spiders as a kid made me wonder what I was doing and suddenly found myself watching this thing all the time, started to do a lil more research and discovered how beautiful these creatures really are. Since then I was hooked, 20 Ts later and my nephews grown more attracted to the subject as well. We're about to start a series of video care sheets for all our animals for his youtube channel as he's getting into making his own videos. Very exciting for me and him... At any rate I was curious to ask anyone who cares to share how they got into this hobby as well. Im sure this will be interesting. NOTE: I've been dealing with exotics my whole life. My older brother and I started collecting geckos and agamidaes when I was just 7 years old and later snakes and chameleons as a got older. I've only been in the T hobby 4 or 5 years and just recently expanded my collection. [/QUOTE]
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