"We brought him home, this little yellow furball is squawking in a box, and Kylie walked over to the box and leaned in, and he was quiet," her mother Ashley Brown told WNEP. "They've been inseparable ever since. Where she went he was quiet. And if she went missing, he would squawk and panic."

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The two have played at the beach and Snowflake even helped complete her "Frozen"-themed costume at Halloween - he dressed as Olaf.

"He's family," Ashley Brown told WNEP. "He's definitely family."