okay i want to say the stuff u hear on the media is total BS they all involve some mistake a person made e.x. someone left a live rabbit in the same room with a free roaming reticulated python and it was also the mans room the retic attacked. along those lines if i put a piece of meat right next to my face, and c alled my dogs (big dogs) they would kill me too. I've had many ball pythons and i sware to god they will ever attack ur dog or baby. there has never been a case of a ball python attacking a kid or a dog. you are thinking od Burmese or reticulated pythons.
BTW, my ball pythons grow above 3 feet if its a girl but ten to be in the 2 1/2-3 foot range if there a boy.