Snake!
We have our first pet snake in the household 🙂
Now that the sun has come out – my son has been finding snakes everywhere. He has been setting up little traps trying to catch them without any luck. He found 5 yesterday, but I was too late to catch them – they had already crawled into the tall grass.
Then we found this beauty…
I was a little surprised when I picked it up because I was expecting it to be a Garter snake.
Garter snakes are pretty boring looking…
and this snake, with the vibrant orange underside, definitely isn’t boring.
When I was a kid, we used to catch snakes all the time, and we never caught a snake this cool!!! I have fond memories of catching and keeping ‘pet’ snakes, so when my son asked if he could keep it as a pet my answer was yes! First though, I had to figure out what kind of snake it was…
It turns out to be a Ringneck Snake. It is a common snake, but is nocturnal and secretive.
Thanks to Bindi the Jungle Girl (his first crush) he has excellent snake handling skills 🙂
The first item on today’s ‘to do’ list was to get an aquarium and set-up a snake habitat – complete with crickets, earthworms, moist dirt, moss, and lots of good hiding spots.
He/she/it seems to be enjoying the surroundings and my son is thrilled to have a ‘pet’ snake!
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Very cool! Theron found a beauty. I have never seen one like that here, we usually find garter snakes and some have red stripes but on their tops. I had snakes as a kid and still like them. Good job Theron.
I have never even seen a picture of that kind of snake; very cool! We see very few snakes of any kind here, which is okay by me. Having lived in venomous snake county, they always give me a start, even though I know the ones we have here are innocuous.
Okay…you made me laugh….first crush on Bindi! I knew I loved your son…..my second crush was Crocodile Hunter and I am still mourning his death. Of course my first real crush I married!
He certainly couldn’t have picked a nicer snake in temperament than a ring neck! Another nice (my first pet snake) one is a rosey boa but you may be too wet up there for them. They’re so sweet. Great find for Theron, so glad he got to have something that’s his for a little while. 😉
Lordy we’ve got snakes out the wazoo ….but I think ours are all on steroids because they all seem to be HUGE !!! EEK !!!
I’m glad we don’t have venomous or huge snakes here. I don’t think we have rosey boas here – good to know that they are sweet. This particular snake is very docile. They make a very simple ‘first’ pet.
That’s a pretty snake. Will he keep it for a long time or just for awhile and swap it out with another…?