I am making sure it can. If I do get one for her I will still call it my snake since I know more about the caring about it (in a sense. Been reading about it the past week nonstop) then she does. Which means the month I am home for Christmas I will have to show her how to take care of it and everything about temps and humidity. I will probably consider it "our" snake. If you will still want pictures I will definitely post them.