WEST FARGO (AP) - City leaders in West Fargo are refusing to allow constrictor snakes as pets in the city.
Resident Robert Butts III owns a python and a king snake and says they should be allowed in West Fargo, as they are in nearby Fargo and Moorhead, Minn. But the Forum newspaper reports that the West Fargo City Commission voted not to change city ordinance that bans both venomous and constricting snakes.
West Fargo commissioners in recent years also have refused to allow chickens in backyard coops in the city.