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John O. Hollister Reptile Collection and more
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I was born in the dark ages prior to WWII (that was the one between The Great War and the Korean "police action" for you non-historians), August, 1941 to be more precise. I have had an interest in animals as long as I can remember. My father took flings at raising hamsters, sheep and chickens. I started with pigeons and rabbits when I was about ten years of age. My father outgrew it, I did not. I found the occasional snake, but considered it something to be put in my older sister's bed, at least until she beat the crap out of me for it.
I hatched out my first clutch of eggs around 1954. They were smooth green snake eggs, found while raiding a blueberry patch in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. I still consider them some of the cutest snakes ever to push their heads from an egg.
It wasn't until 1966-1967 that I began keeping snakes in quantities (that is to say, the maniac stage.) At the time I was living near Syracuse in upstate New York. It started off with a northern brown snake (Storeria dekayi) which crawled in the door at work one fall day, most likely looking for a bit of warmth. Next was a juvenile carpet python acquired from a pet store in Massachusetts for $19.95. Then a Mexican boa (large and nasty), a blue racer, a fox snake (wonderful snake) and a 3 ft. African rock python another great snake) acquired from the local zoo. They were dropped off there by a herper who had recently moved.
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- Abilene TX 79603 US
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