My thought too. I wish pet stores would stop selling live animals. Stick with food, beds, equipment, collars, and grooming. Maybe tropical fish, but lizards and snakes get a raw deal.
And of course, a python is dangerous. But still, it deserves to live in its natural habitat, wherever that is....Burma?
Ball Pythons are native to Africa.
They are small, slow, pudgy, graceless ambush predators that basically live underground in abandoned animal warrens or other convenient holes, *hoping* that something to eat will eventually happen to walk by.
It’s not for nothing they’re called “Pet Rocks”.
Their “defense mechanism” is to ball up around their own head, in hopes that somehow, that will render them inedible to other animals.
[hence, their common name, Ball Python, rather than the proper name Royal Python]
They are snakes that barely even know how to snake.