Your blog reminds me of a nephew that was into snakes. He had to raise rats to feed them. He even told me he felt sorry for the rats. Some rats got a way and I saw white rats running around the house. The river rats are a brown color.
Also in Florida a couple had a python and didn't feed it for a month. It got out and kill their 2 year old child. These people buy the snake then find they can't afford to feed a 8 foot snake, but it was a smaller snake when they got it. So they don't feed it. Worse they throw it in the Florida everglades. Florida is desperately wanting snake hunters. Sounds like a big night mirror. Even if these snakes love their owner, what about their children? Their dogs? Their cats?