Before the shoot Dee was excited, but a little nervous. She loves animals, but she'd never handled a large snake before, and was afraid that the snake might not react well.

But they took to each other right away, and after a while Baby even got the hang of posing. At first, when we put her in a pose, she'd just try to slither away, but if you kept her in position, after a while she'd calm down and hold the pose.