Our Pets!

So my neighbor came over the other day and as she was leaving she looked in my bushes and shrieked and said that I have a huge snake in my bushes. Well upon investigating this snake it turned out to be 3 snakes all curled up together basking in the warmth of the sun. So of course the mayham ensued with the neighbor kids and my nieces, Ally and Rachel. So Ally has wanted a snake for a long time and I told her to come over and get her birthday present. She tried to catch one and it struck at her good thing she was wearing a sock on her hand. The snakes slithered down the bush and as we were looking it turned out that we have more than 3 snakes at last count it was at seven. So then the next day we went over to my mom and dad's for dinner and we were telling my dad all about these snakes that were basking in the sun and he started laughing and told us that they weren't so much basking as they were mating. So with my dad you never know when he is kidding or telling the truth, to the internet we went and come to find out this wasn't a mom snake with her two babies as I so innocently thought, but in fact a female snake with two males doing their thing. So who knows how many more snakes we will have living around our house. As long as they stay outside and eat the mice and the voles they are welcome to stay. Also I would like them to stay out of sight as well.