My younger son would say to us, “But some prople keep snakes as pets,” when we’d suggest that he should be happy with our two dogs.
My teenagers are nagging for a new snake. My co-leader in Cub Scouts is a snake breeder, and he said he’ll give us a ball python if we want one, and then a friend of Tom’s will sell something else ... a “spider morph”? ... for $20.
The problem is that a python lives up to 20 years, and these kids will all be leaving home in the next 5, if God loves me at all.