• You’ve been raising rats for 10 years, and do not know their natural lifespan.
• Your freezer is full, but your wife is constantly complaining that there is nothing in the house to eat.
• You get a sunburn and worry that you are not shedding in one piece.
• You have a reptile dysfunction.
• Your wife tells you it’s either her or the snakes, so you start measuring her sewing room to see how many aquariums/racks you can fit.
• You get a set of four studded tires, and paid for them solely with frozen rats. (I have done this twice…  Mounted and balanced!)
• Due to high energy usage, you are served with a warrant to search your house looking for a pot growing operation. (Not really a problem anymore in Washington.)
• You have a 5 foot pastel named Fluffy.
• You keep an empty pillow case in your car at all times.
• You must keep a separate freezer for feeders, since the only dead animals she will allow in the kitchen (or overflow) come from the butcher.
• You have asked a perspective landlord if aquariums are okay, and you don’t own any fish.
• You’ve ever been foolish enough to believe you might be able to make money raising reptiles.
• You spend more on rats than you do on groceries.
• You refer to a pregnant woman as gravid.
• You have a rat colony to feed your snake colony.
• Eggs hatching!  It’s better than Christmas.
• You take a day off work to vacuum seal frozen rodents into weekly feeding portions for your collection.
• Your 6 year old knows about 30 different types of Ball Python morphs by sight.
•  “snake feeding day” really does take ALL DAY.
• You forget that other living things need to eat more than once a week.
• You do a happy dance when you convert a mouse eater to rats.
• Mites are scarier than the economy.
• During breeding season, your spouse/partner asks you to pencil them in for some quality time.
• You no longer want, but NEED, to add a certain morph to your collection.
• You’ve ever bought your local Dollar Tree out of dog bowls.
• If you ever get “the look” after answering “So how many snakes do you have?”
• Your willing to trade your wife and kids for a coral glow.
• Rodents are a form of currency.
• You take your child’s temperature with a Laser Temp Gun!
• When your girlfriend asks you, “Who do you love more, me or your snakes?” As a JOKE you reply with, “… Definitely my snakes!” And she takes you seriously. Then you have to spend an hour apologizing to her, and 2 hours getting yelled at. And while she is yelling at you, the only thing you’re thinking is, “my snakes never yell at me.”
• You bring home a beautiful new morph and your 15 year old daughter proclaims her love and affection for it and steals it from you. Sigh.
• You search your house for stuff to sell on ebay/Craigslist so you can buy your next morph.
• If when buying 200 4″ pvc caps at Lowe’s your answer to “What project you got going?” is “You wouldn’t believe me if I told you”.
• Your family tells you they won’t ever visit if you have snakes in your house, and you think “Okay, I can live with that”.
• You do the happy dance over a snake that finally broke it’s fast.
• The thought of having to eat ramen noodles or PB&J for the rest of the month seems fine, if you can just buy a few more morphs.
• You put your kids in racks (bunk beds), so you can give your snakes their own room.
• A lazy Sunday morning consist of snake cuddling and coffee.
• You half expect your family to show up one day with the “Animal Hoarders” people from animal planet.
• All you want for your birthday/x-mas/anniversary is permission to get another snake.
• Your snakes get better dog food bowls than your dogs do.
• You scare your dad with a twenty five minute genetics lesson… just because there was a lull in the discussion.
• All of your friends think you are a sick pervert because all you ever talk about is how much fun you have handling your Balls.
• YOU are the guy in the pet store the employees turn to if they don’t have an answer to someone’s question.
• Find yourself having conversations with your snakes, even though you know they have no ears.
• If you are buying rat food by the pallet.
• You remember your snakes hatch/purchase dates but forget your Mother’s/Wife’s birthdays.
• When you make a day trip just to pick up a hatchling.
• Your family jokes about you having kids and keeping them in little drawers.
• You buy bags of horse food yet live in an apartment.
• When you’re out shopping, and you look at the price tag of any item and say out loud “screw this…I can get another morph instead!”
• Almost all pics on your iphone/Android are of your snakes… and when someone wants to see a pic… boy are they in trouble
• You realize you will never make your money back, nor do you care.
• Half the furniture in your house is made out of melamine.

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