More people are buying pet snakes than ever. It’s hurting millions of other animals.

A large python that turned up at a Los Angeles County In-N-Out drive-thru this week has reportedly been reunited with its owners more than 40 miles away in San Bernardino County. Workers at the ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – Despite finding the slithery creatures “cute and cuddly,” snake experts in the area still frown upon owning venomous snakes as pets– and not just for legal reasons. Sioux ...

A request to change a municipal bylaw and allow local breeding and keeping of ball pythons as pets was denied during Monday’s town council meeting.

Just because an animal is venomous doesn’t always mean it is “un-pettable.” Here are a couple of noteworthy exceptions. To most people, the term “venomous reptile” evokes images of cobras flaring ...