I've known people, both from real life and online, that do own or have owned a snake at one point in time. Though, they definitely aren't the common pets so those numbers are far and few between. :(

And now that I've got the idea from Gally, I want to own a skunk as well... >.> <3

I've had ... 4 snakes -nod-
All garter snakes

Aw, no ball pythons Ulti? :(

Nah, too expensive ^^;

All the snakes and turtles I have/had we found in our yard owo;

My sister had a skunk. It tried to rip your fingers off when you went to feed it. Wasn't a terribly nice pet from what I hear. Maybe it was just grumpy.

Don't know about domestic skunks but wild skunks smell all the time. The sprays are insane but you can smell them coming so they're easy to avoid. We know then they arrive in the yard because the smell comes in through the window. To me the spray smells like someone burning onions and garlic in rubber tires.

To my knowledge, pet skunks usually have their scent glands removed so spraying is not really an issue.

I know, but they're so damn cute. <3

One day, I want my own pet snakes. Like a ton of different species of ball pythons, and possibly some various boas as well. <3

My sister thought about a snake for a while. I don't mind the idea but I object to anything large enough to kill a small dog or a cat.

-nod nod- There are some tiny snakes (eg garters) that probably cant even kill a rat o.o

Well there's killing and there's eating, but I imagine the rat would do a number on a garter. I don't think they're constrictors.

My sister was mostly looking at king and corn snakes I think. Little guys.

Well, those little guys can be quite the conversation starter.....which reminds me of a story one of the guys I went to basic shared with me that involved snakes......

My cousin is one for exotic pets. He had an iguana which didn't get along all that well with the family cat. He kept piranhas for a while, and has an ocean tank right now, and a couple of cats. His friend's ferret attempted to make off with one of the piranha at one point. Catching it proved hazardous as the ferret proceeded to drag the pissed off piranha under the couch and any attempts to retrieve the fish met with angry clawing ferret and angry snapping fish. They got it back though. It lived.

Nah, they can kill rodents. Any and all snakes can. You just have to be careful because of the rodent's teeth.

Though, wild snakes don't have this luxury with wild rodents, so I'd love to see how they do it without getting harmed. But then again, they probably have better instincts since they /are/ wild.

King snakes are awesome, like king cobras, they specialize in eating other snakes. And that sounds really amazing, imo. X3

Garter snakes eat insects and things like slugs and little frogs apparently. Some mice could do damage to the garter snakes I've seen, I highly doubt they'd manage a rat. That didn't mean I was happy to let my rat wander around on the grass when a garter happened by though.

eastern browns are one of the deadliest snakes in the world >.>

Are they? I don't know much about snakes.

Trying to not laugh like mad.

I think my family sort of had a relatively big pet lizard at one point, which my dad was almost deathly frightened of...Basically, we think it'd run away from somewhere, and stayed around our house eating bugs...It listened and stayed completely still when my mom told it to "stay" and proceeded to rake up the leaves around it.

...It fell into our swimming pool. That was a very sad day.