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July 9, 2009

More snakes than people in Beirut apartment

A couple that live in a closet-sized Beirut apartment has happily decorated it with 13 snakes -- that they allow to roam free.

According to this little story, Pierre Rizk and his wife Sapna have the pythons, including one named after former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in a less-than 500 square foot apartment.

"I really admire her for her leadership," Rizk told a reporter. "She has so much intelligence, responsibility, and energy -- just like the energy of snakes."

Is that a compliment?

At top, Lebanese snake hobbyist Pierre Rizk poses with one of his pet snakes. In the other picture, below, the snake hobbiest and his wife, Sapa (which means "Snake" in English) watch television with two of their Indian Python snakes in their flat in Dekwaneh, which is east of Beirut on July 6. Rizk and his wife have no children but are happily living with 13 pet snakes. JOSEPH BARRAK/AFP/Getty Images.

Posted by Jill Rosen at 7:08 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
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You know, large constrictors like Burmese pythons shoukd NEVER be allowed to free roam. We don;t need another repeat of what happened in Florida recently...

Posted by: Eric | July 11, 2009 9:35 PM

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About Jill Rosen

Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.

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