Petition for “Storytime with Rex” to become a permanent series on this channel lol

Emily, you need to write a kids book: Don’t Keep An Alligator as a Pet (starring a cartoon Rex)

That book looks like a failed research paper by a middle school student

I love how she closes her eyes when Emily pets her head. She looks so happy.

Imagine an alternate universe where Rex was properly cared for but still needed to be re homed and alternate Emily just has this 10 foot long version of Rex

How to care for your alligator (2019) written by Snake Discovery is just one page with DON’T written on it.

They probably

I like how literally no-one noticed the animal sexism in the whole of the book! They always say HE and never SHE... how does Emily not say anything about this?????????

The fact that the book had nothing about caring for an adult should tell you something. Probably that they don’t expect the baby to survive or people to keep it.

Emily just casually reading a book while having a freaking alligator lay across her lap like its storytime before bed.

Out of date reptile book: oh you can take care of an alligator really easily , they barely need anything

SnakeDiscovery:

Emily:*pets rexs head*

I hope this video helps explain why Rex's old owner took care of her the way he did. I'm old enough to have killed a few of my reptiles following the "expert advice" we had back in the day. Books like this one were everywhere and pet shops would recommend them. There was no one else to ask. No meet ups. Libraries had the same exact information. So you got a pet and did everything the book said to care for them, and they still got sick and died. Even the vets had no idea what to do, no one was trained or knew how to care for these animals. It still pains me that a few of my pets died horribly by my hands, and it hurts knowing so many more must have suffered and died throughout the years from this nonsense. But at least we did learn eventually. At least we gain more empathy for animals as the years have gone on.

"44 seconds ago"

When I was about 4 years old (early 70s), a woman in our apartment complex kept a baby alligator in a large fishbowl on her coffee table.

One of my earliest memories is going to the exotic petshop with my parents to buy toys for our parrots (a real treat to me due to the colourful store and the many animals inside) and getting distracted by the aquariums at the adjoining room. I walked inside a very dark room and there was a not-so-small baby cayman in a fish tank. It had no rocks or anything, just a few inches of slimy water, enough to leave its eyes and nostrils out in the air. The tank had the same length with the cayman, leaving the poor thing literally immobile in its glassy prison. It gave me

"The alligator is good-natured and easily cared for"

The book: you can just put them in a tank with water and a rock and jar with a heater.

"We need to get her in a much smaller enclosure"