Very Proud New Owner

So the snakes finally won over your little one, huh Jo? lol wonder how long until the bug bit him too!

Congrats to him! Helori is a cutie.

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Originally Posted by Shelby

So the snakes finally won over your little one, huh Jo? lol wonder how long until the bug bit him too!

Congrats to him! Helori is a cutie.

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Well he already got his doggie! :giggle:

Your Son looks so proud. Those pictures are adorable. I bet when he's older he'll have an impressive collection like us! Hope the snakes don't take control of your house lol. Very cool.

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Originally Posted by snake_lady83

Your Son looks so proud. Those pictures are adorable. I bet when he's older he'll have an impressive collection like us! Hope the snakes don't take control of your house lol. Very cool.

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Oh heck that happened ages ago! You know you are lost when you view new family housing with an eye for what room works as the snake room and where in heck can you put more rat enclosures before you count bathrooms LOL (and if it comes down to it, you will give up a spare bathroom to get the snake/rat areas squared away!)

Thanks everyone for the lovely comments about Mikey and his new buddy, Helori. He's extremely proud to finally be a snake owner like the rest of his family. Tonight he gets to clean his first snake poopie up as I just noticed Helori's left him a "prezzie" LOL. He's so cute talking about how when Helori is big she'll be a mommy snake and he'll get a boy snake to be the daddy and they will be parent snakes. :)

Thanks as well for the advice about the live feeding issue. We don't want to baby him overly but heck I'm a mom and I have to fuss about this stuff. We're actually going in to clean Helori and feed her shortly before Mikey's bedtime so I'll report back on the outcome of his first live feeding experience with his scaley buddy.

Cue huge hugs to you bud! She's a wonderful little snake, calm as could be and you couldn't ask for a healthier, more well started baby.

Lol. I guess I should have known that they've already taken over your house.:P Keep us updated please.:)

Big congrats on your new snake Mikey!! Great pics. :carrot:

:aww: That is SO incredibly sweet! The story, the pics, just everything! Way to go Mikey! And extra cool to get to help educate his classmates!

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Awww! It's so cool that he's interested in snakes. :)
Cue; he's great w/ his Santapython thing!

Well his first feeding went very well. He thinks snake poop, while interesting, is gross btw LOL but he helped clean his snake up anyways. He helped me pick a nice live prey item and took that all pretty much in stride with only a bit of upset about it. I just stayed very businesslike and reminded him that's why we have the smaller rats around. He insisted on dropping the rat fuzzie/small pup in the enclosure by himself.

Of course Miss Helori then decided she wasn't eating with some kid staring at her. Soon as Mikey wandered off to use the bathroom, she snarfed down her dinner good as gold. He did get to see her finish up.

So after all my worry and motherly fuss, his only comment on the experience was....

"good job Helori!"

then he very matter of factly went off to find a storybook for bedtime. LMBO!

Lol, sounds exactly like Marc's first feeding of his snake.

Great job, Mikey!