Introduction To A Pet Mom

 My many pets 

    In my introduction, I figured I'd talk about the many furry (and non-furry) friends I have in my life. I've always loved all kinds of animals. Growing up we had dogs, cats, fish, a turtle, mice, hamsters, a couple rats, and I was extremely close to convincing my mom to let us get ferrets, which she didn't give in sadly. My house was definitely always full and there were lots of critters crawling around. Technically at the moment, my only animal baby is a snake, but I count my family's and boyfriend's pets as my babies too, so I also have a pit bull, a beautiful fluffy white cat, a scruffy little puppy, and a golden retriever puppy, as well as some mice, and I love all of them so much. 

    My snake's name is Loki. I got her around the end of the summer last year, and she is a royal python, which is a type of ball python that is native to Africa. Most ball pythons you get from stores are royal python. Snakes are not the most affectionate, but I like to let her chill out over my shoulders or curled up in my pockets if I have them and say she's "cuddling" with me. I got her from a pet store, which I know isn't the best, but the pet store didn't know how old she was. Guessing from her length, which is about thirteen inches, I would say she's a little over a year old. The picture I'm going to show is one my sister took while we were feeding Loki, there is no blood, and also it is not one of my sister's mice, I got them from a snake food breeder, but it is one of the clearest photos I have of her without my face in it. 

(Photo of Loki taken by my younger sister.)

My mom's dog, a pit bull, is named Blu. He is a blue nose pit and we got him my senior year of high school. He is one of the smartest dogs I have ever met and honestly I feel like our relationship is kind of like a relationship between siblings. He loves to mess with me and will "argue" with me behind my mom's back, always getting real quiet when she comes into the room. My mom is still very adamant that I am his favorite person. My favorite thing is when I come back after staying at my boyfriend's house for a few days and he has little "pit fits" where he sprints around the house because he's so excited to see me. Here is a photo of him from last March. 

(Photo of Blu, taken by me, March 2020)

    The other three pets, the two puppies and the cat are my boyfriend's and his roommate's. The scruffy puppy's name is Kevin and my boyfriend's roommate got him from one of his friends. He's super rambunctious and loves to bite me. He doesn't like cuddling too much, because it takes away from playtime, but my favorite thing to do is scoop him up and hold him like a baby and he'll be still for a few seconds and look up at me with the most adorable puppy eyes. It's the most adorable thing. The cat me and my boyfriend found on the street last week. He was eating food off the ground and we lured him into our house with some lunchmeat. It took about half a day and he already is acting like he owns the place. My boyfriend thought to name him Benimaru, which is a video game character. The final puppy actually used to belong to my boyfriend's parents but they couldn't take care of her anymore so she moved in yesterday. She is a golden retriever puppy and her name is Nala, and she is super sweet. I haven't known her long enough to have any special memories with her, but I'm very fond of her all the same. I don't have any pictures of these guys without me or my boyfriend in it, which I'm not comfortable putting in here, so sadly I can't show them off. However, these are all my animal friends at the moment, and I love all of them very much.