Approximately 800,000 reptiles are kept in the UK as exotic #pets including around 200,000 #snakes .
As the demand for exotic pets has grown, thousands of snakes are now bred in captivity, living in containers just like this, having never experienced living in their natural habitat.
No wild animal can have its needs entirely met when kept as a pet - there is no way to replicate the space and freedom they would have in the #wild.
