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"textContent": "America's growing fondness for pet snakes has quietly spawned another booming population: factory-farmed mice and rats. In a piece for Vox , Kenny Torrella traces how the surge in snake ownership—as of 2024, 1.3 million US households had at least one pet snake, a 60% increase from 2018—has...",
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