Dorothy with a snake

For those who have been following my posts, I guess you remember that I have a couple of posts about my daughter's unusual interest in reptiles especially snakes, lizards and such. I am not sure if it's in the blood for hubby doesn't have any interest on any of them nor do I. But the fact that my step son has interest and even keeps them as pets, I come to think that its influence her a lot to wanting those creatures. My step son had a pet snake inside the house before but unfortunately the snake died about a year ago and since then he has only a lizard and some other pets. Dorothy had been bugging us before to have a pet snake. But we explained to her that we cannot have it for the reasons that nobody likes it except her alone, high maintenance and the thought of having a snake in the house really scares me. lolz. And just to satisfy her interest a little, I always take her to the zoo/wildlife park and even to any shows that features reptiles within our reach and last month was another great chance for her to have up close encounter with one of her favourite and coolest creatures in the world during the Blacktown City Show. Luckily, there were two wildlife entertainments, the Down Under with Reptiles and the Featherdale Wildlife Park. Dorothy spent a great deal of time in both and was given a chance to hold the snake with the supervision of the animal keeper. David on the other hand just watched and kept a good distance from the creatures.