Meet Turtle (or Al, or Snake, or maybe some other name)

After signifiant lobbying, much research, and several visits to the East Bay Vivarium, we decided to surprise Clara with a snake for her birthday. They're not cheap, but I have been fully convinced that they are good (and easy!) pets. Hopefully this will bear out to be true. I was the hardest in the family to be convinced, but I was won over by a combination of Clara's determination, her research and fact-finding, and actually holding the snake at the store (it's way nicer than I expected).

It's an amelanistic corn snake (Pantherophis guttatus) and here are some pictures of the snake at the store and at home: