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Kellie Pickler Accessorizes with Pet Snake

09/26/2012 at 03:00 PM EDT

Kellie Pickler has found the perfect accessory to complement her new look.

"My slithering necklace," the singer Tweeted with a WhoSay photo of her pet python Boots draped around her neck.

The country starlet shaved her head Sept. 4 in support of her best friend, Summer Holt Miller, 36, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in June and started chemotherapy treatments this month.

Pickler seems to be digging the ease of her new do. "Perk of having a buzz cut is that I get to sleep in an extra hour," she Tweeted. "No need to shampoo, condition, blow dry, flat-iron. #ExtraZzzzz ;)"

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