The new member’s of the gecko family!

     As you all know I have two leopard geckos. One of them is a boy named Giecko and the other is a girl named Gezzel. Actually I share Gezzel with Shannen.  Well, she laid eggs again this lay season and we have never been able to hatch them. So this time we just left them all alone in our closet. They take 60 days to hatch, but they can hatch 4 days before and 4 days after. One morning I woke up and I looked in the box but I only saw 1 egg so I walked out. It didn’t ring a bell that there were 2 eggs in there the day before. As I was walking out Shannen came running out and said that we had a baby leopard gecko. So I ran down the hall and looked. Just like he said there was a baby leopard gecko that hatched 1 day before the due date. It is purplish grayish with black dots. It is two and a half inches long(including the tail). That day we were looking non stop to see if the other one had hatched. But it didn’t that day. The next day we were outside playing and I went into our room for something and I looked up and I saw a small crack in the egg. Throughout the hours it hatched. Soon it was completely hatched and it is a yellowish orangeish color with black dots. It is two and a half inches long too (including the tail). So we now have two leopard geckos. Giecko and Gezzel are parents now.~Shayden~

Shelbie’s home

Shelbie  came home Tuesday the 14th. We had to drive all the way to San Francisco to get her. So we got up at 6:30 and got ready. At 8:30 we left for San Francisco to pick up Shelbie. Every time we go an a long car ride Shylie will throw up but this time she didn’t. Praise God for that. When we got there we were running on time. So we unloaded as quick as possible. Then we headed to the elevator. It took a minute or two to finally get on. Then when we got off we rushed for the air train. When we got there it was coming to a stop so we hopped on. The train took off. When it came to a stop we hopped off then headed to the the terminal. We got there just in time. Shelbie hadn’t even come down yet. She got lost upstairs so she had to ask someone where to go. When she finally came down everyone started hugging her. Then we set off for home. The whole way home she told stories of Africa. We made it home good with no throwing up. It is really nice having her home.

~Shayden~

The Reptile Club

Recently we got invited to a reptile club and the topic was on rattlesnakes, we went with our uncle and we had a blast looking and learning about snakes. Let me tell you what I learned.

Rattlesnakes are best known for, and most easily recognized by, their rattle. The rattlesnake babies are born with what is called a pre-button. The baby snake loses this piece when it sheds its skin for the first time. With the shedding a new button appears. With every shedding after that another button, or rattle, will be added. These buttons are made up of a material called Keratin, which is what the scales and your fingernails are made of! The rattles are empty, so what makes the noise? The noise comes from each segment knocking together, so until a rattlesnake has two or more pieces it isn’t going to make a sound! But when it does…you WILL hear it…and you WILL RUN!

Rattlesnakes and every other type of snakes eyes turn cloudy blue before they shed, after they shed their eyes turn back to there normal color.

The last rattle on a rattlesnakes tail turns cloudy blue before they shed because the next rattle comes out of the last rattle.

The first time a snake sheds is nine days after they are born.

Rattlesnakes are found in the southern parts of the United States, from the deserts to the mountains and grow between 3 and 4 feet long. There are 16 different types of Rattlers such as the Eastern Diamondback, Western Diamondback, Sidewinder and the Speckled, just to name a few. All of them have rattles, are venomous and are pit vipers.

Rattlesnake babies are born venomous but cannot rattle and are often more aggressive than the adults.

This Rattlesnake has cloudy blue eyes and is about to shed.

SHANNEN

ISN’T THIS COOL!!!!!

 

Shelbie’s in Africa

     Shelbie left for Africa on June 8. She left for Texas with mama and stayed there for a few days. Then mama came home and Shelbie stayed two more days then left for Washington DC. From there she went to Dakar, then to South Africa, and from there she went to Zambia. Altogether her flights were 30 hours long.          

      Well she has been in Africa for five days and she’s blogged almost every day. I’ve been reading her blog and she’s said that she loves Africa. She got to Skype twice since she’s been in Africa. I got up once at 2:00 am to talk to her, but it was only for 5 minutes:( We hope she will Skype again soon.

  ~Shayden~

"Burning Out" by THE NATATORIUM

I really like this song and I think you will too:) This song is called "Burning Out" by The Natatorium.



Shannen

Bradly a.k.a Bradalina

I have a bearded dragon, his name is Bradly. I got Bradly about two and a half years ago on my ninth birthday on August thirty-first.

It all started when I was sitting on the couch opening gifts when my Uncle Micah got up and walked down the hall, I didn't no what he was doing but I didn't ask. Less than two minutes later I was almost done opening gifts when Uncle Micah came and sat back down. When I just got done opening gifts Uncle Micah reached into his pocket and took out a little container with tiny holes in the top of it. I saw something brownish blackish with little tan spots inside the container. All he said was "happy birthday buddy" I jumped up and ran over there. I opened up the container and there was Bradly only about four to five inches long. I love Bradly:)
About a year later Uncle Micah came over again and went into are room with us he picked up Bradly and said "I think Bradly is a she" I said "why do you think that" he said "because she is not growing any more" so i renamed her "Bradalina" but somehow the name Bradly stuck:)

Ha-Ha Ha-Ha that was funny!!!!!!!! She's happy that's for sure:)

That guys a crack up!!!!!!

Shannen

Gopher snakes

Gopher snakes have large blotches of dark brown color down the middle of it's back. There are more different colors too. The rest of it is a yellowish color. This snake isn't venomous. It's bite sort of scares you but it doesn't hurt you. The Gopher snake kill's it's prey by suffocating it. The prey is swallowed whole usually head first. The Gopher snake eats mice, rats, gopher's, ground squirrel's, rabbit's, bird's, and lizard's.

Gopher snakes are related to pine and bull snakes.

Found throughout North America and Mexico, there are eight known kinds, of which two snakes may actually be separate species.