[Conspiracy Guy]

"People will buy these tiny little snakes and if you do everything right, they're six-feet tall in one year.

Long and tall have different meanings. A six foot tall snake would be a few hundred feet long.

[BlueBlood]

Why do you think people let them go? After a little while they are stuck with a snake that is a half mile long. That gets expensive to feed. My cousin had that happen to him. Just think how many hat bands you can get out of a snake that size!

;)

[Myrddin]

I had a Burmese python that was 18 inches long when I purchased it. Over a year, it grew to 5 1/2 feet. My wife and I decided to pass the snake along to another couple that didn't have small children. We've had a Rosy Boa in the living room for over 10 years.

When I was working a contract in Florida, an employee of my customer invited me over to see his Burmese pythons. The small male weighed 80 lbs and was about 7 feet long. Very nice disposition. The female weighed over 150 lbs and was almost 12 feet long. She had a nasty disposition. Lots of hissing and striking behavior. The snakes lived on a diet of rabbits and chickens. The cage for the female occupied most of a bedroom (8 feet X 8 feet X 2.5 feet).