[cyn]

NOTE: NOT A WILD PYTHON — had escaped from home cage.

http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation_world/20090701_ap_officialsescapedpetpythonstrangledflachild.html

The snake was a family pet, not one of a fast-growing population of nonnative pythons that has been spreading in the wild in southern Florida.

[from occupied ga]

Pythons, rattlesnakes, and pit bulls are unsuitable pets when you have small children around.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

NOTE: NOT A WILD PYTHON — had escaped from home cage.

Another reason it should be illegal for private citizens to own dangerous exotic animals. Chimps, tigers, Burmese pythons belong in zoos. And, of course, the fact that there are any wild pythons at all in the US is due to people buying them as pets.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

The snake was a family pet, not one of a fast-growing population of nonnative pythons that has been spreading in the wild in southern Florida.

Thank God for that. Oxford, a few miles west of The Villages retirement community is in North Central Florida, about a dozen miles from me. Glad they haven't slithered up this way yet!

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

from the article:

“.. One killed an alligator and then exploded when it tried to eat it...”