Photos: Parents Let Their 2-year-old Daughter Kiss & Cuddle 15ft Burmese python

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Two-year-old Alisha-Mae loves to have a cuddle with the the 15ft Burmese python called Austin

This little girl isn’t at all afraid of the 15ft Burmese python wrapping its coils around her.Two-year-old Alisha-Mae loves to have a cuddle with the snake and her parents are more than happy for her to do so.

Burmese pythons, which squeeze their victims to death before eating them whole, have been pictured in the wild swallowing pigs, deer and even alligators. For Rob Cowan and his fiancée Stacey, such a creature is just part of the family. In fact, the couple, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, have 19 snakes, of which this enormous python, called Austin, is the biggest.

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Mr Cowan, 35, said the eight-year-old reptile – who at 13 stone weighs more than he does – is a ‘gentle giant’While most of the family’s snakes eat mice or rats, Austin and a 14ft female anaconda need a little more to fill them up and are fed rabbits and guinea pigs

Heavy: Her father Rob, left, and a friend show off the 13-stone reptile in their back garden