.... and as you can see here, Andy is modelling the latest in winter snake fashions....People have pets. Lots of people have pets.
A snake isn't the first thing that comes to my mind when I think of pets.
But, as part of moving into the apartment, compatibility with the house pet was necessary.
A snake as a pet is surprisingly easy to adapt to. It really has to be one of the lowest maintenance pets that a person can own (I'm not including a pet rock in my analysis). There's minimal feeding, cleaning, costs, time or energy that is actually needed. In fact, you can pretty much ignore the thing for the 3 weeks between the feedings and it would be fine.
I was personally relatively nonchalant to the prospects of living under the same roof as a snake, but from what I have learnt in the last year, that's the not the same response of all people.
In the space of less than 12 months, I have seen people screaming, people instinctively jumping away and I have even seen one person run screaming at the top of their lungs out of the room when the snake was brought out of its enclosure.
But again, as you can clearly see, that's not the reaction that I have to the house pet....
It's relatively harmless (I hope) and up close she is genuinely a beautiful and amazing animal. Her skin is something to be marveled at and usually elicits comments from me directed at my housemates about how great a belt or pair of shoes she would make (only in jest of course).
There are times that I'm made to jump though.
Those instances usually involve the surprise of Andy or Josh holding the house pet behind my head just before I turn around so that I find myself face to face and inches away from a hissing snake's head..... lovely.
Or they could just hide the pet in my bed.....
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My grandfather-in-law likes to tell the story of this girl he met once who wore her pet snake all the time. She even slept with it, which I'm sure it enjoyed because of the heat. I'll stick with my dogs and cats though!
I used to have one. Well, I lived with one with my ex. It was pretty cool. His name was Flex.
hey i just wanted to know that does she{the pet) have a name and if she comes when you call her.i mean how do you call her? i have my tonka(i dont call him a dog)he's family now,he has pretty obvious stuff to die for,not to mention.what gestures of her actually made you feel to keep her as a pet.basically i want to understand the 'beautiful mind'.
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