Pythons may be best known for squeezing prey to death, but that isn’t all that an owner should worry about.

   A Sebastian woman who said she had been caring for her son’s 12-foot albino Burmese python for a year was bitten, TCPalm reports. Even though the python, which was put down by wildlife officials, isn’t poisonous, Kim Bradford was hospitalized.

   And Jamie DePriest of Tampa was lucky that he could drive himself to St. Joseph’s Hospital after his 18-inch pet Gaboon viper bit him. Unlike the python, the Gaboon viper is venomous. DePriest was still in the hospital recovering several days later.