I work at Petland, and today I came in to work to discover a lady had left her number for me with the cashier. You see, apparently, I'm the only person in the whole store that will pick up a snake, much less own one. The lady had a snake that she was giving away for free, cage and all. So I called the lady back, and sent my husband to go pick up what we had now discovered was a red tailed boa. When he got there, the snake had no water in his bowl and no heat source whatsoever. When he got to talking to her, we soon realized that things were way worse. The woman's husband was the owner of the snake and he had moved up to NYC for a job, where she was soon to follow. Wellll, she was afraid of snakes, and when he left two months ago, he had a 3 year old RTB and a 3 year old BP. She was feeding them one small rat once a month. Last month, she was feeding the BP and the rat bit the snake and then they started fighting. Well, her being afraid of the snakes, did nothing. The rat proceeded to kill the BP. To make matters worse, she had the snakes in the same cage, but luckily since the RTB was so starved, he ate both of the rats. However, when my husband got there, the BP corpse was still in the tank with the RTB. Needless to say, the RTB is now at home with us, and is going to get a proper meal and cage setup. People are sure are dumb.