A friend of Alice might be able to answer that question.
First, it’s not a Ball Python, which never attain “10 feet”.
It’ appears to be a Reticulated Python, best I can tell from the lousy photo
Boas and Pythons are intelligent and affectionate animals who can become very attached to their owners.
Due to they way they’re built, escapes are not that uncommon which is why responsible keepers have secure enclosures, but even then, mistakes can happen.
It’s funny.
I sincerely do not like cats but I would never offer to run over [and back up, repeatedly until my bloodlust is satisfied] just because I saw somebody’s cat out running loose.
Rather, I would try and help the cat I don’t like, get to safety, just because it’s the decent, human thing to do, because someone, somewhere, may love it dearly.
Cats are just as much a non-native species as that Retic is.
I reckon I just don’t have an irrational fear of cats like some do of snakes.
Some days, FR is spectacularly repulsive.
Today is one of those days.