Family share three-bedroom home with 17ft-long python that is UK's longest pet

Most families admit they could do with a bit more space around the house.
But spare a thought for the Rice family who share their home with a 17-foot-long albino python.

Lilly, who lives with her owners in a three bedroom detached house in Guyhirn, Cambridgeshire, has been measured, held and even lined up against the family’s ford focus - which she is bigger than by more than a nose.

Kim, Peter and Chloe Rice with Lily the 17-foot-long albino python who shares their three bedroom detached house

Owners Pete, 49, Kim, 45, and 16-year-old daughter Chloe proudly show off their huge pet beast who lives both in their home and outdoors.
'Lilly has a wonderful personality,' said Kim.

'She is very placid and is so laid back that children love her. Lilly is much less trouble to keep than my two dogs to be honest. We can let her wonder around the garden, particularly on the grass on a hot day, which she loves.

'But we do need to make sure she is watched at all times. If she wondered off she would give someone the fright of their lives.'

The Rice family have been keeping snakes for the last 25 years, after Pete bought his first one.

Teenage Chloe is so snake obsessed that since finishing her GCSE¿s at school she has enrolled in the Milton Animal College to study reptile keeping

The white and yellow snake has been measured, held and even lined up against the family's ford focus- which she is bigger than by more than a nose

Since Lilly¿s growth has increased to epic proportions the family have had to build a ten-foot-long and six-foot wide heated tank for Lilly to sleep inside

Since then they have fallen in love with snakes so much that Kim has recently decided to open a snake shop so others can enjoy snake keeping.

When they first bought Lilly as a baby, little did they know that she could possibly grow into Britain’s biggest pet.