 i didn't know that oh yeah we had snakes and lizards and frogs and toads and turtles we had all kinds of critters and my son and i used to go out to my daughter too for that matter go out to local ponds and hunt frogs and salamanders and all kinds of creepy crawlies and bring them home and i'd say that they were our guests for a while they would come and stay with us and then we would let them go that is very cool