Woof everypups and everycats. Toby here, this is me and Keiko in the backyard. We were talking about our neighbor Henry.
This is Henry. He is an Emu and he lives right across the road so we see get to him a lot. He is very friendly and loves to come to the fence to say hello. Henry was found wandering in the desert a few years ago and was in really bad shape. But his human Mom and Dad took really good care of him and now he is just fine. We think he is part dog because he likes to chase cars.
This is a tiny Gopher snake. Mom named him Draco and even though he is very small, this little guy can grow to be nine feet long. Draco just hangs around in the backyard looking for food.
This is what Draco will become. This is a adult Gopher snake(he's about six feet long) and he's recently moved in with the tortoises. Mom hasn't named him yet, probably because he scared the puppy poop out of her the first time she saw him.
Mom says that Gopher snakes are good to have around because they keep the yard free of other snakes and rodents. That's because they have an attitude problem, they didn't get the nickname "Bull Snake" for nothing. For more info on Gopher snakes, please visit the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum website.
Norman here, just thought I'd show a couple of photos of our backyard. This is me with our pool. Mom got us a new one this year because someone chewed a hole in the old one. Yeah, that's it, someone(probably a freakin rabbit) sneaked in at night and chewed a big hole in the old pool, that's what happened.
Here is a picture of Mom's favorite rock(she likes rocks, it's weird). The thing behind the rock is called an ocotillo. It's a desert plant with sharp thingys on it but it's not as bad as some plants and it gives us something else to pee on.
This is me, Keiko and Toby next to the tortoise pen. We're pretty good about staying out of the pen. We only jump into the pen in emergency situations, like when there's a rabbit or gopher in the pen. We've got to keep the yard free of those beasts.
This is inside their den where they have a little visitor. They had a snake once but Mom was too scared to stick the camera in the den. 
This is Brutus, he is the smaller of the two but he is the most active and loves to dig holes(Mom doesn't let us dig holes).
Here are both Brutus(left) and Cato(right) eating. Mom feeds them greens and yucky stuff like that to supplement their diet. They also eat desert shrubs and grasses such as Trailing 4 O'Clock and Fairy Duster which they have in their enclosure. And as you can see, they get grass in their pen. Mom says we can't have grass because all we will do is pee on it and dig holes in it. 
