So this is Montie. He is a ball python or a royal python. Very, very compact species we see coming through onto the clinic. He's probably getting close to more adult size now. He'll probably go a little bit larger than this, but not much. And if you're keeping a pet snake, having one of a sensible size really that's easily handleable is as important. The royal pythons are great. You can see he's quite happily here, he's gripping onto me. I would expect him to do that. It's a good sign. He's got muscle strength there, which he should have. Snakes, again, very, very common pets. They feed on whole prey. In the UK, we feed them on frozen and defrosted small mammals really. So Montie here, he will be on a small mice. We defrost those. He gets fed basically once a week on those which is sufficient to keep him well satiated and in good body condition which we can see he's quite nice and rounded here over his back there. Temperature is very important for these as well, they need to be kept to the right temperature. Although most snakes don't have a requirement for ultraviolet lights, although it benefits them, that is not so critical in the same way that it would be for all other lizards. He's taking whole prey, we tend to have less issues with calcium problems with these guys, because he's eating the bones of the prey item as well. The tongue flicking he's doing is normal. He's just investigating the environment, and he can use that sort of taste and smell it, if you like, to see where he is and what's going on. Just so he gets a feel for where he is, and what he's doing. In terms of restraining a small snake like this, a pet snake is well trained because they will just run over your hands quite happily. Larger snakes you might want a couple of people to hold them just simply because of weight. Obviously, if they do grip onto you, they can grip onto you quite tightly. He's just holding on here just to make himself feel secure and happy with the handling. Did you enjoy being bathed? So he gets a bath two or three times a week to make sure he's nicely hydrated in his enclosure as well. The other interesting thing with the pythons, if you actually have a look over his face, you'll see he's got a series of little opaque dots just above his upper lip there. These are actually heat sensitive pits, and he can use those to detect very, very subtle temperature changes. So when he's feeding, he knows exactly the temperature of the prey that he's taking before he feeds on that, and they use as a heat seeking mechanism for when they're hunting for prey naturally in the wild.