Re: Brown spots on ball python's tail?
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aspen_opossum
I may be exaggerating the mistreatment a bit, especially of the animals which I dont know specifics about how to care for.
Maybe.
A snake with a missing jaw simply can't eat. It certainly can't take down live. A wildlife rehabilitator permit requires facility inspections, and if the owl was wrecking feathers from inadequate caging that wouldn't pass.
It could be that rescue animals simply look to be in rougher shape than people who aren't used to such situations can interpret. It may be that the room actually is warm enough for these snakes (at least some species are kept this way -- warm but without temp gradients -- and though for most but not all species this could be improved on, it isn't necessarily mistreatment). Given that the BP looks to be in good shape, I'll go out on a limb and say that the conditions it has been kept in are working, at least minimally. This is not to say that I'd keep a snake like that, or recommend anyone do, but it certainly doesn't cross the line into mistreatment.
