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[WhompingWillow]

With all due respect, you have barely over 1 year experience with reticulated pythons yet consistently disregard advice from those with much more experience with large constrictors.

Licenses for retics in TX don't exactly sound like they are difficult to obtain. The licenses also don't say anything about being used to provide educational shows with the regulated snakes. They are for personal use only, unless you've obtained the breeding license, and that just expands it to breeding, not public displays. I read the statutes because your practices made me curious. So how exactly are you a) licensed to take such large snakes into public and b) give educational shows? Are you registered as a non-profit? What is your curriculum, what topics do you cover? What information are you really trying to convey? Or are your shows simply a way to show off your animals to make yourself feel good?

I, for one, am happy nothing happened to those 5 girls and am relieved nothing major has happened at any of your "shows" yet. But you are fooling yourself if you believe it's a good idea to have such a large constrictor out in public in a pet shop of all places, around young children and people who do not have experience with any snakes, let alone retics. I don't believe you even have a second handler to help you if something goes wrong? Do you think retics are taken out at zoos as educational animals? No. They aren't.