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Article: Who'd want to kiss a python?; (Some of the 100,000 big snake owners in this country, that's who) `They are great stress-busters. People think they are slimy and horrible but they couldn't be more wrong'.
- Article from:
- Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
- Article date:
- September 26, 1999
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A THREE-year-old child was killed by a pet python in America earlier this month.
Now The Reptile Trust and The Giant Snake Society have launched a registration scheme for owners of large snakes in the UK to help prevent the same tragedy happening here.
But why do people want to keep potential killers as pets?
CAROL HASSALL meets the experts who claim snakes are seriously misunderstood.
THEY look slippery and slimy and can crush the life out of man or beast in just a few seconds.
Yet to hundreds of thousands of people in Britain ...