I am thinking about getting a pet snake!  Have you ever owned one?
I don't own one, but I wrote a paper about them once. Something about their long legless bodies freaks me out.
Yeah, a lot of people are that way.  Have you ever handled or pet one though?
I pet some snakes at a travelling zoo show once. I remember feeling their vestigal claws by their cloaca - it was gross.
Um...I have no idea what the vestigal claw is.  Please enlighten me.
At one time, snakes likely had legs and claws, but they lost them over thousands of years. Now there are just tiny leftovers toward their rear.. 
Interesting.  I never knew that.  Is there any other cool facts you know about snakes.  It makes me want them even more!
Snake
Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes. Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaws. To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species
to take advice, and I won't have this following letter—the first she ever wrote me—moulder away, when I can read it no more, lost to all loving hearts.
The letter Rose writes is addressed "Dearest St. Crumpet"—"St. Crumpet" being her pet name for him—and contains sweet, affection, attentive notes about how much she and her family thought about Ruskin during their travels:
I wish so very much that you were happy—God can make you so—We will try