I'm with Del on this one. You can make the same case with other animals that have a FAR bigger range than Ball Pythons. Dogs for example, in the wild they will travel in big packs and travel large distances, we keep them in our houses. Horses, once again pack animals that will move over a large area of land, most are kept in small fields and in tiny packs, often alone. And birds? Huge open areas to fly, most cooped up in cages for extended periods of time... A Ball Python is a solitary animal, we provide that, we provide the heat they need and the food they need, as they would get naturally in the wild. They do not move far in the wild, will often stay in the same place for long periods of time, as you most often see in the behaviours of our own pythons. They get given far more appropriate living conditions when it comes to the wild than most pets in my opinion.
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