We love our dogs – I maintain that when the flock leaves the nest, we’ll be living on some acreage with 50 dogs – but our fave pet was our Blue Tongue Skink, Tasha. Yeah, she had some major smells coming from her tank, but she really was gorgeous. What a doll!

BTW – Love the pics of your beardeds. They are lovely!

You’d never know that we were a reptile family. Asian, suburban family, with PTA mom and SUV? No way. Trust me, if I could somehow get an enclosure into my entertainment center, I would absolutely get some snakes and a few lizard friends into a new home!

~Just stumbled onto your blog, btw, while searching for your backlist. Looking forward to devouring the rest of your books!

Cindy, no, the snake isn’t large enough to eat rabbits and won’t ever get that big. He will only get big enough to eat a rat. It’s more likely the rabbits would end up hurting or killing him if they ever came in contact. Which, we hope, won’t happen. One of the rabbits did spot the snake once while the kids had him out playing with him, and the rabbit freaked out, naturally.

Best pet I ever had was my cat Nickles. She loved to be held like a baby and she’d dig her nose into the crook of my neck and snuggle and sleep. Heck, my actual kid was less cuddly than this cat.

Wow, Jamie, you have a TON of pets. Last I knew, you had one cat.

Jamie of the Jungle…

Well, now I know who to call upon if I ever feel the need to put a snake in one of my books.