The laws in the US are getting more European all the time. I used to work with a guy who left the UK so he could keep guns. Hopefully he'll be able to keep them the rest of his life and you'll also be able to keep pythons in the UK the rest of yours but with these trends who knows. If you can't humanly euthanize a suffering animal who is to say you can feed it humanely treated rodents?

He did ask my opinion on the kinked and platypus nosed super cinnamon and I recommended a wait and see but I don't know what he decided or if he took it to a vet. I did once hatch out a badly kinked corn snake and after it proved it could eat and defecate I took it to my vet for his opinion. It just so happens that my local vet is a published herp expert but I know that many don't have an experienced reptile vet available. He thought my corn snake moved like it was NOT in pain (just stiff). However, my kinked corn snake only lived about 6 years so I'm not sure the kinking didn't cause some sort of suffering after all.