I have been keeping snakes for 13 years but only increased my collection on taking early voluntary redundancy in 2005. Below is my

first snake, Zoe, she is still with us now at the age of 19 and still looking great.

As most people who keep snakes will know it becomes an obsession and the odd few snakes rapidly increases, in my case to over 100. They range from cute little Western Hognoses, Corns, Rat Snakes, King Snakes, Pythons to Boas.

I started breeding Corns with two normals Okee and Tarcci. I have since accumulated a variety of morphs which I plan to breed in the next few years. My breeding programme now also includes boas, ratsnakes and hopefully royal and spotted pythons. My boas include the Sinder phase, a possible new morph which hopefully will prove soon, 2 pairs of dwarf El Salvadors and a pair of Islas de Maise boas.