why do snake owners have cats??

[MudBoy]

Hi all.
I got some bad news today. About a month ago we got a visit from some new snake people that wanted a carpet, they had all the licences and paper work and had owned a little childrens for about a year.
They wanted a BIG snake but after showing them a couple of my bigger ones the changed thier minds and got 2 snakes, a nice little tully jungle that we had bred and a 6 mth old coastal carpet with beautiful markings and an orange skin almost like a light bredli.
I did the usual and gave them all the help I could and about a hundred pages of care sheets and info, and as they had a pet store built set of inclosures I felt I had done my job pretty well,UNTIL!!!
I get a phone call today saying and I quote " is it ok if we come round and get some more snakes? Our cats killed the other ones and we miss them, oh and do you have something a bit bigger so the cats cant kill them ??

I tell you it was lucky he was on the phone and not standing in front of me or he would be needing some new teeth to go along with his new snakes!!
Well I told him no and said come back when you have rid of the cats (4 of them) and we will talk. Well you should have heard the carry on, it was like I had asked him to drown his children or something so I told him to make a choice snakes or cats and if you choose snakes then bring the cats to my place for some payback, I will put em in with my scrub pythons and see how they go, scruby's love a little pussy on the side!!
He hung up!
I like cats as much as the next person but if you want to have snakes dont have cats. How many times have we been told about the deaths from cats even here with experienced handlers.
I say make the choice one or the other!