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Children as young as 3 allowed to play with 19ft pet Python
The children as young as THREE who are allowed to play with dad's 19ft pet python (but they know not to ask for a hug!)
- Father Eric LeBlanc is a reptile enthusiast from northern California who owns hundreds of lizards and snakes
- He recently had to move dozens of the apex predators into his home after a fire at his reptile store
- Despite the danger the animals could pose he has no problem allowing his three children to handle them
Father Eric LeBlanc is a reptile enthusiast who owns hundreds of lizards and snakes – and allows his three young children to play with them, including a 19ft reticulated python
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This is one family who likes to walk on the wild side.
Father Eric LeBlanc is a reptile enthusiast who owns hundreds of lizards and snakes – and allows his three young children to play with them, including a 19ft reticulated python.
He recently had to move dozens of the apex predators into his home when a fire at his reptile store killed some of his animals and injured many more.
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LeBlanc recently had to move dozens of the apex predators into his home when a fire at his reptile store killed some of his animals and injured many more
Despite having a laidback attitude to his children being around the animals he insists they are completely safe and would never leave them unsupervised
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Despite the danger the animals could pose he has no problem allowing his three children Erica, three, Larry, four, and Katie, seven, to handle them.
'The worst bite my daughter got was from a bearded dragon,' said LeBlanc.
'My son got bit in the forehead one time by a ball python when he was around two-years-old.
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Eric LeBlanc and his three children Erica, Larry and Katie hold Shelby the python at their home in California
LeBlanc with his three children, Shelby the python and a monitor lizard in Anaheim. 'My kids have been bitten by pythons and dragons but they're always fine,' he said
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3zzZn5P4o
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