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Emma started following this local place's YouTube channel over a year ago, and since then has been asking for a snake.
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Surprisingly she knows a lot about them - all the different kinds, what they eat, how to set up their habitat. I've been against it. Mostly because I don't want to store dead mice in my freezer 🤢, and I remember when my brother's snake bit my mom 😬.
She has been pretty set on getting an albino checkered garter snake, which I haven't seen available anywhere. It just so happens that the place got a bunch of babies in last week. I talked it over with Braden and he thought we should let her get one as a Christmas present. The girls didn't have school today, so we made a trip there to go see them.
After getting there she changed her mind when she saw how small they were. She held a 1 year old corn snake that was pretty small and tried to hide in her pocket. Then the lady took out a 1 month old corn snake which was even smaller, but the lady told her it was too squirmy for Emma to hold. I asked if the 2 year old corn snake I saw posted on their Facebook page was still available because I thought that one actually sounded perfect.
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After Emma held her she decided this was the one. So here we are...
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When we got home she got right to work setting up the enclosure.
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Welcome to the family Peanut Butter.
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