Python kills child and cat

[Tom B]

Amazingly it appears it is legal to keep a 4m python in this country with no registration or experience. This guy's cat was eaten, and in America it was a child killed. He's started a petition on the no.10 website to get pythons included in the dangerous animals act. Seems like a reasonable request, and should be straightforward to make a change in the law....

Cat eaten (UK)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/glou ... 191355.stm

child killed (US)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 28567.html

petition to ban keeping pythons as pets in the UK
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/no-to-pythons/