Owning a ball python is a long-term commitment as they can live to between 20 and 30 years old. "I got her when she was 4 months old," Mia told Newsweek. "She is now nearly 6 years old." ...

Rats; Shrews; Jerboas; Other small mammals; ... It’s still possible for a ball python to bite you, and their bites are painful. Ball pythons have around 150 teeth that are 1 centimeter long.

Larger ball pythons typically eat larger mice or rats. Selecting prey for a ball python. As a general rule, you should select a rodent that is 1 to 1.25 times the size of the midsection of your snake.

A ball python eats a white rat. Ball pythons are the smallest python species in Africa. Tubagus Aditya Irawa/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images.

A snake owner has shared how her pet snake accidentally mistook her hand for a rat, leading to an unfortunate bite. Mia lives in Western Washington and has had her ball python Aphrodite for five ...