New addition to the "family"

Despite my protesting, Darwin got a ball python yesterday (for free) from a BYU Professor who is in charge of one of the field trips Dar is going on this summer. Luckily we aren't allowed to have pets at our apartment (except for our 1 beta fish) so the snake is a school pet :) Dar is pretty excited about it and didn't sleep well last night because he was worried the snake would get out during it's one night stay at our place. And, sure enough...the snake tried to escape!! All of this was going on while I was sleeping peacefully, and Darwin was getting up periodically to check on the snake. The snake currently does not have a name, but that shouldn't last much longer. Darwin is having his junior high students put names in a suggestion box and then the students get to vote on the top names so I'll keep you posted on the name for his currently nameless snake. The woman he got the snake from actually breeds them, which is her plan for retirement. When we went to her house yesterday to pick the snake up, she took us down to her basement into a little pantry-like area, but it was full of shelves with containers that each had a snake in it. She's got over 80 snakes in her basement!!! No thank you! Anyway, she was telling Dar about the great money it brings in and she was trying to talk him into getting started with breeding snakes as well. I told him it MAY be a possibility when the kids we don't have yet are grown up and all moved out of the house, and then he looked at me with pouty eyes like he wanted to get involved with it now. Haha. Fat chance. First of all, we are still in an apartment that doesn't allow pets. Second, I don't like snakes and refuse to touch them. Third, he'd be doing all the work himself and he's already swamped with other things. And finally...you need money to start out with something like that. Sorry honey, you're going to have to wait on your life long dream of breeding snakes for a living :)