The Lee Family Zoo

I just realized that in addition to having a dense garden in my home, we also have quite a few pets. I stayed up late into the night yesterday to identify the snake species that my dad brought back home. He caught the snake at his jetty office and brought it back yesterday evening for us to see. My mum did grumble a little though but since the snake was outside the house and going back to the jetty with my dad, she let us put up with it for a few days. My dad and I finally decided that it was a Painted Bronzeback snake (Dendrelaphis pictus), non-venomous but then again, my dad is still rather cautious when handling it.


My mum was rather nervous about the snake but I told her that if I just squeezed it a little, it would die as it looks extremely fragile. It's about 20cm long and skinnier than the skinniest snake that I've ever seen.


We recently got 4 budgies to add to our collection of pets but unfortunately, one flew away today when my dad was cleaning the cage. But it was the naughtiest of the lot so I guess it's not so bad. The others are rather silly as they actually like to eat bits ot newspaper, forcing me to remove all traces of paper from their cage. My favourite bird is the blue one in the picture.


This is just one of the many water features/ponds/aquariums in my home with fish in it. This one is at the side of my house.


But then again, no pet is loved more at home than my dog; Blossom. She has been on a naughty streak recently, peeing and pooping where she shouldn't and biting things. Just only today, I discovered that she pooped on her chair and my dad realized that she bit the electrical wire on the fan when he was taking it out. It is a good thing that she didn't get electrocuted. To date, she has bitten 4 pairs of my slippers and rendered 2 unusable. Naughty, no? Well, I still love her to bits and will miss her when I go away.