I have a pet snake, it a a rattle snake.
I used to have an elongated, legless, carnivorous reptile as well. A albino burmese python
I got my snake from Africa. It cost a lot of money to ship him over.
I doubt it's legal. Dose it have a cool pattern on it's overlapping scales?
I filled out the correct paper work to make it legal. It has overlapping scales on it's entire body.
Perhaps you should up your game and get a Crocodilia known as crocodilian or a crocodile. 
I would be afraid that the Crocodile would eat my rattle snake.
They have been around 83.5 million years I'm sure they have eaten a lot of snakes.