Discover the Pattison Family

Bearded dragons are amazing animals. They come in all colors, shapes, and sizes. They are called bearded dragons because usually people see the skin flap under their chin and think it looks like a beard! 

Slugs are amazing and cool animals.  They love to eat veggies and other things. Slugs are sometimes found by people and you can actually keep them as pets.  All you need is a big glass jar, any type of breathable lid, and in the bottom add a damp paper towel.  Feed it every two days.  We caught a slug and he is living well with our snails. 

Tadpoles can be kept as pets, but they have to be big. You can catch them and put them in a fish tank.  But first you need a glass jar with a lid.  Once you catch it, put the jar in your fish tank and after 30 mintues you can release it.  

After a few weeks, it will become a frog and then you can release it. 

  Some snakes are very poisonous like the rattlesnake and black mamba. Some snakes are not, like the garden snake. My favorite kind of snake is a king cobra. 

  Zebras have their stripes because when they run if there is a predator the predator may not be able to catch them because all the stripes are going by in such a fast blur and they are very confused. Zebras are sometimes related to wild horses. 

  Once when we were 2 years old we saw these funny brush-tailed bettongs bouncing around in their enclosure. We were dying laughing. They are small mammals and love to bounce and bounce. They look almost like kangaroo rats.