The Full Monty in Bristol

Disturbing reports from Bristol about the misuse of pet pythons (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/aug/09/python-bites-teenager). In one reported event, a gang of youths used a python as an offensive weapon by forcing it to bite a terrorised youth who did not appear to understand that the snake (like all constrictors) was non-poisonous. In this case, the snake was clearly an innocent bystander but it's an exceedingly nasty thing to do. In a second event in the same city, a snake that was allowed to slither around the garden by its owner apparently consumed a local moggie, only identified as the victim by the scanning of its identity microchip in the bulge. People should clearly be more responsible in their care of these reptiles.