No, although technically my job is working with animals, they're all the furred kind. I have studied a lot, using college resources. I started out with cetacean studies and moved to the reptiles later. No degrees. However, I have met a couple zoologists that actually told me that if I wanted the ball pythons to stay under 10 feet, I could keep them in small tanks and they wouldn't get very big. After that, I stopped putting much faith in school degrees without actually talking with the person.