Avalon... Really our BP is more my daughter's, she is the one that wanted a snake and kept asking me for one.. I kept saying No..No..No. Then one day I started reading a little on them and within the next week we went to a show to hold a few. After that I decided this was pretty cool, so we started putting together our setup. Following month we went to another show and purchased Avalon, an 10 week old BP at the time. We're not even sure Avalon is a Female and it really doesn't matter, she's just our pet. We aren't in it to breed or have numerous snakes. It's just something to so with my daughter.