Another irresponsible misinformed herp owner.

I can actually. If i tried to keep them, my mother would yell at me to put them back because i wasn't capable of taking care of them. It wasn't until i hit 11 or 12 that she decided it was okay for me to keep animals, and even then i was limited to mice or gerbils (i went with mice. little did i know what used to be pets to me is now food for my BP O.o). It is not the kid's fault for the most part (getting EVEN MORE animals after his died is entirely his fault), as the parents clearly turn a blind eye to what this kid is doing to them.

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Originally Posted by Simple Man

It happens all the time man. We don't appreciate people that come here for answers enough. All you can do is your best to try and educate people or at least steer them in the right direction. Otherwise, if you worried about this kind of stuff all the time you would have the weight of the worlds exotic animals on your chest. The majority of people don't do things incorrect because they want to. They do things incorrect because they don't know any better.

Regards,

B

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Exactly - the kid just does not know any better. Tell him what he is doing wrong and move on. I hope OP at least attempted to help him, as the original post does not make it seem like any effort was put into helping the kid rectify his husbandry problems.

First of all i did tell him to correct his husbandry issues i did not post that because most if not all of us already know how to take care of these animals. It was truly the parents fault. If an animal of mine dies i find out why and make sure it doesn’t happen again. He however made the same mistakes again and again and his parents didn’t do anything. I also don’t buy anything i cant take care of which is why i don’t have snappers. Oh and yes he moved the 50 watt to his snappers but the cage is way to small and he says he feeds therm worms and night crawlers which he catches.

Sounds like my neighbors. They're always getting animals and have had many reptiles die, just to be replaced by something new. I always give them advice on how to keep them properly, they nod and agree and thank me, then dump it into a ten gallon tank until it "mysteriously" dies. They usually feed whatever animal they have on whatever wild bugs and lizards and such they catch in the neighborhood, regardless of what the diet should be. If the reptile is big enough to eat rodents, they'll feed it pinkies and mice just to watch it eat them.

I do my best to simply give the advice and ignore the carnage. There's nothing more that I can do legally. I give them advice and tell them "It will DIE unless you do xxx" and pretty much they ignore it. The best they've done is feed a slightly better diet to the spur thigh tortoise someone gave them, instead of the iceberg lettuce and whatever foilage they pulled from the yard. Now it's mostly romaine lettuce... with some fruits and veggies thrown in.

They actually came over to complain to me how their ball python "escaped" from the 55 gallon tank I advised them not to use. The cover was.... *sitting down??*... a blanket draped over it. They were astounded that it "escaped" the tank. I actually did utter the words "You are the stupidest people I've talked to in weeks. You know that, right? Morons. Total morons."

They still come tell me about the latest critters and to ask advice. Maybe one day they'll start following it. Not holding my breath.

Well at least your neighbours like herps, my neighbors some how found out i had reptiles (stalkers) and now tell me they’ll eat me. WTF ball pythons eating a person.

I have to admit, I was once that little kid, killing everything it got it's hands onto. I blame myself, my parents were always telling me to let things go, but I was bringing so many things into the house, it was pretty much impossible to quell the tide, and my parents didn't know anymore about the animal's care then I did...I killed some really beautiful animals, much to my shame.

I hate what I've done, (and has taken quite awhile to not hate myself for it,) but now realize proper education is essential, and haven't killed anything in a long time. It was incredibly unfair and cruel for the animals to suffer from my learning experiance, but if the parents don't know any better, or don't know what's going on in their child's room, (:oops:) it's hard to blame anyone. I hope the kid learns from the death, takes the OP's advice, ands grows up to properly care for his collection. Education is needed for everyone.

Well.....at twelve years old the kid is old enough to seek out and learn what needs to be learned about taking care of the animals he has acquired, there is no excuse.

Kids as young as 9 are surfing the web for all kinds of info these days, and they all practically live on youtube.

The parents are another story all together.....They seem to me to have that "everything is disposable attitude" like many of my generation, pet dies, buy another one. Oh that one died too, well lets buy another one, instead of finding out why the animals died.
Or hey why not buy a care manual for the new pet we just bought little Johnny.

just my :2cent:

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Originally Posted by llovelace

Well.....at twelve years old the kid is old enough to seek out and learn what needs to be learned about taking care of the animals he has acquired, there is no excuse.
Kids as young as 9 are surfing the web for all kinds of info these days, and they all practically live on youtube.

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Depends on the twelve year old...I was fairly technology-free till I hit about 14. My theory at 12 was that love conquers all. Unfortunately, loving an animal to death doesn't take care of it's needs. It honestly never even occurred to me that the animal might need special care outside the obvious. Less intentional neglect, more ignorance. Although, I won't deny neglect was there. Children are lazy. :(