My name is Brian Gundy and I am a native of Campbell, California. As a child I was greatly influenced by my dad and grandfather who had many exotic animals. I field caught most of my pets while growing up such as raccoons, hawks, owls, doves, and squirrels. My reptile pets included various types of snakes and lizards indigenous to the San Francisco Bay Area. Anything I could get my hands on such as alligator lizards, blue bellies, skinks, horned toads, garter snakes, gopher snakes and California Kingsnakes were among my collection. When I was about 12 years old I purchased my first snake. It was a Boa Constrictor that soon took up residence on a tree limb suspended from the ceiling in my bedroom. To say the least my parents were very supportive of my love of animals.