BARKING Mad, the TV programme that helps owners with problematic pets, on Sunday featured an obvious show-off of a woman who kept a massive python.

How on earth can anyone get pleasure from rearing a wild creature that they're obviously scared of, caged up in a house and feed it live day-old chicks and rats?

I'd die first. I find it sickening.

This week, the team of animal behaviourists is helping some twit with a bored octopus.

It can't take much to sort that one. Put it back in the sea where it will be happy.