Daddy's little Princess

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This is my favorite little girl holding our 8 year old Mexican Black Kingsnake for the first time. She's always checking on him in his cage. I had him out in the back yard over the weekend while cleaning his cage and feeding him. She came over as I was getting ready to put him away and said in her sweetest 2 year old voice, "daddy, me hold snake." I thought about it for a minute and said what the heck. She held him for a few minutes and loved it, especially the part where he was licking her.

Enjoy,

Bill

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Is that the snake's diiner lurking in the backround?

Brian~
 
I love snakes but due to my two year old fearing anything small with a pulse he won't hold a moth much less anything else, lol
 
She is a cutie - not the snake.
Those years do fly by...(for Christ sake, who is holding the fast forward button down on my life!?!?!?)
Before you know it, she'll be changin' your diapers.
 
OMG! How can you people stand those things???????? Ugh! It makes me ill just looking at one! I have no idea how people can even think about having one! Geez! .........but I gotta say, the snake does look cool!

(I was channeling W.C. Fields there only for humor's sake. Your daughter is adorable! Good for you!)
 
She's not afraid of anything. I have to keep an eye on her because when my son sees a spider or other bug he come running telling us about it so we can do something about it. Before we get there, my daughter is there trying to catch it. When I get there and ask her what she's doing she says, once again in her sweetest 2 y/o voice, "I got it daddy."

Bill
 
awesome pic. you can feel safe knowing she is protected by both Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson and what appears to be an attack chihuahua on high alert.
 
She's a camera ham for sure. She will do almost anything to get her picture taken.

Bummer, that's a fruitless mulberry tree. I bought it a couple of month ago and it was only a trunk with no leaves. It's supposed to grow real fast, so hopefully by this time next year it will even look like a tree. I have quite a bit of green in the yard to include some peach and pomegranate trees, a 4 plant garden and some palms out front.

Gael, the attack chihuahua is out front but the dachsound body smasher is keeping a close watch on the snake from a concealed location.

Bill
 
That's a very cute picture. I had one of those fearless kids, unfortunately, his mom got him too scared. So he now prefers video games to reality. We're working on him, though.

I did get him a little scared too, at least enough to keep him from running out into the street. :D

I hope you can strike a better balance with your favorite little girl there, but they don't come with good instruction manuals.

Now I'm sure that cute little fruitless mulberry will grow into a monster, killing everything underneath it, with knobby roots coming up to the surface and attacking your slab/foundation. Assuming you can keep it watered.

I'd suggest planting a slower growing Plan B tree to take over before that time comes. Maybe a Joshua tree. :D

And/or you could follow an old Texas tradition and put in the PPPDS - Prickly Pear Perimeter Defense System. A row up by the fence would give a nice surprise to anyone who decides to drop in the back way.

Generally this system provides a loud audible warning as well as considerable discouragement to the intruder.

To be fully traditional, you eat prickly pears - burn off the spines first - and then arrange for their seeds to be deposited back by the fence wrapped in fertilizer, if you know what I mean.
 
Cutie. But if you've got venemous snakes in your area, it would be a good idea to make sure she understands to only pick up the one from the cage, not any found in the back yard.
 
Z6Z,
We do have some Rattlers around here and I've already told her to come get me or mommy if she sees any snakes other than ours.

Bill
 
Glyp,
I would love to have a Joshua Tree in the yard but they have a 90% transplant rate and only grow 1/2" a year. The Mulberry should be okay for many years and by then we will be long gone from this house. I did just plant a Prickly pear out front this weekend. Once it gets a bit bigger I will likely eat some of it just to say I did. It only has two lobes so far.

Bill
 
You have a lovely daughter (she is the same age as my granddaughter). I commend you for raising her with the proper respect for creatures.
 
Thanks Pawncop!!
I grew up chasing critters through the wilderness. I caught everything from garter snake to rattlers and any mammal small enough to stuff into a pillowcase except skunks.

Bill
 
Cute girl and nice snake! I had my corn (pantherophis guttata) out earlier. My everglades rat (pantherophis obsoleta rossalleni), on the other hand (how do I turn off this italics crap?), has a passion in life; trying to bite me.
 
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