5-year-old girl adamant about adopting baby snake she found, wholesome mom seeks help from the internet to teach her about animal safety: ‘He’ll live a happier life in the place he’s born in’

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Molly Vincent
Aug 12, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

Parenting never ceases to test us. Your kid could come home crying with a hurt and bruised knee from running downhill and falling, or you may get a call from the principal of their school informing you of something they did. Any good parent must master the art of being loving, stringent, disciplinary, patient, and creative all at once. It's a constant cycle of ups and downs when you have children, and not enough people consider all facets involved when they decide to procreate. 

My sister's 1-year-old daughter was just caught holding a baby bat inside their own home! It's really a question mark as to how the bat got inside their home, and how their precious little girl came to discover it. Needless to say, it gave my sister and her husband quite the spook. Children are so fragile – their immune systems aren't developed, and they truly just don't know how to take care of themselves. Their vulnerability is what makes adults instinctually want to protect them, it's absolutely biological. 

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    "Help me give her reasons why we can't keep it"
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    My five year old caught baby snake. Help me convince her it belongs outside. a
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  • If your child does come across an animal they shouldn’t be touching, it’s best to teach them the proper practices around stray animals, animal treatment, and animal safety. The mom in the story below tries her best to teach her 5-year-old about which pets can be adopted, and which can’t. 

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    Those are her hands holding it. Not mine. This thing is so little and cute. She's adamant that we can care for it. My snake
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    knowledge is spotty at best. "But we rescued Tank (cat) as baby!" We will be letting it go regardless
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    but help me give her reasons we can't keep it so I'm not just the 'mean' mom saying no.
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    Hierodula_majuscula "Cats have been with humans for thousands of years. We're so closely connected that if they don't
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    have a human they usually live hard lives and suffer, so rescuing Tank was a good thing.
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    Wild snake is wild. We can make friends, but he doesn't need or want to live with us and he deserves to be free
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    in his home where he will be happier doing the things wild snakes do. Taking him from the wild is very different, and would be cruel.
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    (Optionally- There are some types of snakes that are pet snakes though, and maybe when you're older, when we
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    have all spent more time around snakes and understand what we need to give it a really good home, you can have one.)"
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    Additional_Film_50... maybe try saying that, "he'll live a happier life in the place he's born in” something like that
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    QuiteLady1993 When I worked in a preschool one of my kids caught a worm and didn't want to release it so I talked
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    about how much its worm family and friends were going to miss it and wonder what happened to it and there's going to be no
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    explanation on where they went or all the fun they were having. Then we built a worm house out of leaves for it that we could visit
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    during our next outside time with an explanation thst if it. wasn't there when we came back it was telling everyone about its cool adventure with their new friend.
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    RiMcG Baby snakes often eat the kinds of things that we can't go pick up at a store, so we wouldn't be able to feed it.
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    And this little baby has the whole world to explore, we don't want to keep it in a little cage. He's got snake friends out there so let's put
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    him back and we can wave bye to him as he goes. Maybe we'll even see him again as a big snake.
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