Like father, like son.
Michael Jackson wasn’t the only animal-loving member of his family; son Prince is just as pet-obsessed. The 17-year-old has created an extensive reptile habitat for his beloved animals.
Clad in dress slacks and white tank top, the eldest of the King of Pop’s three children was photographed leaving a Los Angeles-area pet store with a friend on Monday, carrying a piece of wood and bag of other pet essentials.
The younger Jackson has been charting the progress of the structure, which he is building himself, on social media over the last two weeks. On Tuesday, he revealed he’s put 80 hours into it.
“Prince has about 10 snakes. He started with them after his father died when he went to live with his grandmother. He’s got lizards, too,” a family source recently told People. “He’s very, very serious about them.”
The source added, “It comes from his father and growing up around animals.”
Michael was the proud owner of one very famous pet, Bubbles the Chimp (their relationship immortalized in Jeff Koons’s iconic, life-size sculpture of the pair), but his Neverland Ranch was also home to tigers, giraffes, llamas, alligators and flamingos, among other exotic pets.
