In Memorium

It was an exciting day, the day Daddy brought Taylor his first pet. For Mom it was not so exciting, you see, the pet was a snake. While mowing Kris found a little red-striped ribbon snake. (a part of the garter snake family)
Taylor named it Sambo after Mama's first pet, but my first pet was a dog. He loved his snake and was excited to go play with him after lunch but, lo and behold...

much to his Mama's terror, Sambo had escaped, yes, in our kitchen! Thankfully, he hadn't gotten far and while Mama jumped up on the kitchen counter to get away, Daddy saved the day and got Sambo a better cage. Mama didn't let Sambo stay in the house anymore. The next day when the cousins came to visit they found Sambo there in his cage but after going back to check on him a few times they asked uncle Krist to get him out. Thats when we found out Sambo had died. Oops, we think his cage got too hot.

So this post is in memorium for Taylor's first pet.

Sambo

A good snake

July 2008- August 28th, 2008