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One of the dad’s in our homeschool group is very passionate about snakes. So he graciously shared his passion with a bunch of curious little kids. He even went to the trouble of renting a slide viewer so that he could teach the children all about snakes and conservation of snake’s habitats.

Since GB loves all things in the animal world, this afternoon was tailor made for him.

Below you’ll see a HUGE Green Tree Python.

Here he is close up.

As you can see, GB has no fear!

GB and his friend were just enamored with this little guy. I honestly can’t remember what kind of snake he is, I think he might be a ball snake. Most of them looked quite similar to me. Although Mr. D couldn’t understand why I thought so.

Mr. D had eleven snakes and was in the process of trying to breed a ball snake, with a recessive albino gene, to a pure albino ball snake. …….. What fun!

Mr. D also had a special ‘rat room’ where he had bunches of rats. I guess they were for feeding, but I didn’t go in there, so I didn’t get the scoop.

During the following video you’ll see a Green Tree Python who enjoys nibbling on Mr. D’s arm hair. It’s a weird affectation that we are assuming he did because he enjoys it. He seemed very affectionate towards Mr. D. As affectionate as a snake COULD seem.

I have to warn you that you will also see a Corn Snake (Professor Lupin… isn’t that a funny name?) eating a little mouse. I thought GB would be upset about that. But he, like every other kid there, seemed utterly fascinated.

You see how I snuck a little more education into GB’s Spring Break? Pretty good, huh?