Because if she did, we'd have yet another addition to the menagerie:

3,000 feet in the air on Saturday, Monty Coles discovered a four-and-a-half-foot black snake peering out at him from the instrument panel of his Piper Cherokee.

The control tower guys would all be tearing their headphones off trying to get away from the cry, "it's so cuuuuuuuutte!!!!"