I would love to own a dragon!
A dragon!? You mean the scaled, fire-spewing reptilian mythological creatures we read about? Me too!
Yes! Like in the movie Pete's Dragon. It would be awesome.
If they were cute like the movie maybe. Most are usually shown as huge lizards or snakes, with two pairs of legs, that emit fire. That sounds scary!
But you could ride on them.
I'd be more concerned with people hunting them. In folktales, dragon's blood contained unique powers which could grant people powers. 
Really? I wonder what kind of powers? There would have to be laws against hunting them. 
I would hope the power to fly or spit fire as a power. And I completely agree about putting laws up to prevent poaching them.
I do have a woods behind my house where I could keep a dragon. Now to just find one!
' (genitive , ') "serpent, giant seafish". The Greek and Latin term referred to any great serpent, not necessarily mythological. The Greek word is most likely derived from the Greek verb (') meaning "I see", the aorist form of which is (').
Sources of inspiration for dragon myths.
Dragon-like creatures appear in virtually all cultures around the globe. Nonetheless, scholars dispute where the idea of a dragon originates from and a wide variety of theories have been
Europe during the Middle Ages through the combination of the snakelike dragons of classical Graeco-Roman literature, references to Near Eastern European dragons preserved in the Bible, and western European folk traditions. The period between the 11th and 13th centuries represents the height of European interest in dragons as living creatures.
Dragons are usually shown in modern times with a body more like a huge lizard, or a snake with two pairs of lizard-type legs, and breathing fire from their mouths. This traces back to the continental dragon,