The Perfect Pet

For Christmas each year, our family draws one name from a hat for secret santa. When I drew my 11 year old brother Sam this year, I immediately wanted to give him a snake. Sam would absolutely love a pet snake. However, due to my family's disposition towards snakes, this proved to be difficult.

My Mother is the person most scared of snakes that I know. In fact, our neighbor (5 houses down from us mind you) had a 6 ft. long Boa Constrictor, and she actually had nightmares that it would escape and she'd find it under her bedsheets.

So the question is, under these conditions, how would you go about getting Sam a pet snake for Christmas?