I have lost my beautiful Pete

[Catherine]

Thank-you all. It is never easy to lose a pet. Tobi, you are right that she was weak in the picture. She was also very thin and her skin was dry. She had trouble holding down food and could only eat tiny meals, just like when she was a baby.
Pete was always a special snake. She was my first snake to lay eggs and always the first one to lay eggs each spring. She was never able to have more than 6 eggs. Caitrin had 23 even though she is older, but Caitrin is much bigger.

Sam, Mike and Aurora are going to miss her. For the first few days they were very restless as if they were looking for her. They have accepted that she is gone, but she was always there so they must still feel her loss. We all feel her loss.


Pete was like a beautiful fragile butterfly. So maybe fly free is the right way to see her passing.