In our stay at Holiday RV park in Sutherland Springs we discovered our close-by neighbor had a Ball Python as a pet. Being the snake hater I am it was discomforting when he brought it out and sat it's glass cage on the picnic table. Emily loved it. She was over there with her nose almost on the glass. The man went inside his RV and accidently or on purpose left the door open at the top of the cage. Emily was there at the time she said: "Paw Paw I was nose to nose with that python when he came out." He slithered to the ground and headed for our RV. The owner heard Emily and ran out with python glove in hand and caught this beast. When placed back in the cage he was one angry snake! He darted from end to end and tried his best to get out. It had to be incredibly HOT in that glass cage! It was right at 100 at the time. Finally he crawled in his water trough and coiled. Emily went back out in a few minutes and came back to say, "The python is dead!". She called the owner from his trailer and he agreed. He had told me earlier he was making a belt from the snake when it died. They can live forty years or more. Did he try to kill it? We don't know. Three days later it still lay where it had died. The aroma was getting a bit strong. Word came that we could move to Nixon to the driveway there. They had electric service. We left with due haste. For even a snake hater like me it was sad to see such a beautiful snake die that way. Who would imagine we would watch through our RV window the death of a python? That sort of thing is for Africa. It happened in Sutherland Springs, Texas. What next?