Very recently I've taken notice of carpet pythons and think that one would be a great addition to my (currently) very small collection.

What I was wondering however, is whether the smaller carpets (Irian Jayan, Jungle) would be a serious threat to an adult cat.

The original condition from my wife for when I first decided to get a snake (and wholeheartedly agreed to by me) was basically "Nothing that can harm the cats or the dog if it somehow escaped".

Not particularly worried about my dog (black lab) or my older cat (healthy sense of self-preservation), but my younger cat's fight-or-flight reflex consists largely of duck-and-cower