On Wednesdays We Wear Scales 🐍💅

  On Wednesdays We Wear Scales  A midweek check-in from your favorite pink-haired reptile nurse. Hey! This issue is arriving fashionably late, which at this point feels less like a mistake and more like a personality trait. But I’ve had a lot of new people join recently (hi and welcome!!), especially after a post over on Instagram, so this felt like the perfect time to reintroduce myself and what Sweet Ave Zoo is really about. Feature: The Keeper (Hi, It’s Me Again) If you’re new here, I’m Kasey! I’m a certified veterinary technician working in emergency medicine, and Sweet Ave Zoo is my little corner of the internet where I share life with reptiles, invertebrates, and the occasional behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to care for them both at home and in a clinical setting. This space has always been about: • Realistic, ethical animal care • Learning as you go (and admitting when you don’t know something) • Making reptile keeping feel approachable, not intimidating ...

  On Wednesdays We Wear Scales  A midweek check-in from your favorite pink-haired reptile nurse. Hey! Somewhere along the way, Sweet Ave Zoo grew. More enclosures, more species, more systems... more everything. But this week I wanted to take a step back and talk about one of the originals. One of the animals that was here before things got busy, before the room filled out, before I knew exactly what I was doing. Feature: Feets — The Curly Hair Tarantula This is Feets. One of my very first tarantulas, and honestly, one of the reasons I fell so deeply into keeping in the first place. Curly hair tarantulas (Tliltocatl albopilosus) are often recommended as beginner species, but I think that label undersells them. They’re calm, hardy, and forgiving, but they’re also just genuinely beautiful animals. The soft, textured “curly” setae give them this almost velvety look, and their slow, deliberate movements make them incredible to observe. Feets has always been a reminder that not eve...