Auburn Plainsman shows off my rattlesnake

Well, on Sunday night I got a call from another Plainsman reporter. This time, the reporter was interested not in my waterfall experiences or my politics, but rather my pets.

Check out the story and image linked here.

The best quote from the story?

Clark’s fascination started as a kid in Louisiana, when classmates brought alligators to show-and-tell and boys would snake-hunt on the weekends.

“When I was a kid, I used to ride my bike three miles almost every day to this pet shop,” Clark said. “I used to bug the heck out of them trying to get to hold a snake.”

Yeah, I really must have annoyed the heck out of the folks running that pet shop. For the record, the pet shop was the big blue "St. Tammany Pet Center" at the corner of Fountain Drive and Robert Boulevard (formerly Robert Road) in Slidell, Louisiana.

Now, the really odd thing about this story is that the other "peculiar pet owner" interviewed is a Chinchilla owner named Josh Ricciardone who hails from my hometown of Slidell, Louisiana. Does Slidell somehow breed more adventurous, think-outside-of-the-box pet enthusiasts?