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1979
My brother Ken's pet python, Nagaina. I didn't mind playing with it, but I was glad he wasn't living at home at the time he had it. I felt sorry for the poor mice it ate.

The snake got fairly large (3 feet?) and then escaped. It was recaptured by someone a year or so later who sold it for a good bit of money (in the meantime it had been keeping down the rodent population of a trailer park).

I wasn't terribly sorry to hear it was gone, because it was getting to the point mice and rats wouldn't satisfy it and feeding them to it was bad enough.

I can't recall when we got Candy- except that it was a few weeks before Valentine's day. (The photos didn't help- this one was in a group marked 1979, but the cradle was marked 1981.) Honey had gone out in the yard and was playing with her. The people who owned the mother let her and the pups run, and were just as happy to have one taken off their hands.

She was probably part German Shepherd Dog and part ...well, anything. She was the smartest dog I've ever met. She was housebroken with one 'No!'.

Candy, probably in 1982. I liked the color and composition of this picture. She had the softest ears, too, velvet and suede.
When I got her, dad was away on a trip. When he got back, mom asked him if I could have candy for Valentine's day, and when he said 'sure' she brought out the puppy and introduced him to Candy. (He'd heard puppy whimpering and figured out something was up, but he didn't mind going along with a joke.)

Here Candy learns that it's not a good idea to come bumbling up to Momma Whitetip, thinking to bully. I love this picture.

Checkers was an outside cat. Very pretty, very sweet. I didn't even know I had a photo of her, until I went through my archives.

Foxy on the roof looking down at me.
She's still here (as of February 2005.)
Well, not here as in 'on the roof'.
You know what I mean.