Need to put leash on those snakes!!

[PJgunner]

Years back, my daughter had a pet Bull Snake. It was given to her by a friend who was going away to college and could no longer keep it. Along with the snake was a book on the care and feeding of the animal. I ttok the time to read the book, and when it came to thes ection on where and how to keep it, the book said that snakes are the world's greatest escape artists. Darn't if they weren't right. Dooby got out of his aquarium more than once. Scared the holy living bejabbers out of my wife more than once. I finally put four five pound ingots of lead on the cover of the aquarium and that finally kept the little rascal contained. Made the better half a lot happier.
That Burmese Python is one of the more aggressive forms of Pythons. My son from a previous marriage had a reticulated Python as a pet that was thirteen feet long when it died. He now has another that is, the last time I asked, about six feet long. It was about two feet long when he bought it.
I have no problem with people keeping large snakes as pets provided they can keep them properly contained. I do believe that if they have small children, then the snake should go.
Paul B.