Animal Hoarders AZ

[Slashmaster]

I just saw the other snake hoarder episode, Confessions: Animal Hoarding. This guy had a lot of poisonous snakes and non-poisonous.

Okay, I can see why they were calling THIS guy a snake hoarder. For goodness sake he had terrariums stacked on top of each other, littered all over the floor, and he didn't even know where individual snakes were when they were gathering them up. I can't believe he had proper husbandry for those snakes. The house itself looked filthy and there were cages everywhere.

Just like the other one I saw... this guy is nothing like those of us who keep our animals clean, fed, and healthy in racks.

[Maixx]

Know your limits,.. he realized that he was in over his head (be it with a little persuasion) before it Seriously got out of hand and accepted help. They didn't take all of his animals,.. even though they could have. Just the one's he was willing to give up and needed the most help.

It could've been so much worse,.... I'm glad he got and accepted help in time.

Yeah, a few snakes were saved, but how many people watched this show and fell for the BS propaganda that was fed to them. How much damage is being done to our hobby by the fear mongering these shows dish out with their false information. I've hated AP ever since "Man Eating Super Snake"

[mues155]

just another ignorant media story of snakes.
The guy had 30 snakes. Thats less than some of us on the forums have.
Are four giants too small for a mobile home? yes
Is a giant a pet for everyone? no

But to say that they make horrible pets and get "meaner" as they age i think is BS.
If properly cared for these snakes are not dangerous. Every media story covered on snakes takes us further and further from our goal of the right education.
AP and the media sicken me.

[Crazy4Herps]

Just to be an obnoxious grammar nazi...

When people hoard, they emphasize with these animals and it's hard to give them up.

Error aside, since when are empathy and reluctance to give up a pet symptomatic of hoarding? Isn't that simply being a good, caring owner?

[wolfy-hound]

Just to be an obnoxious grammar nazi...

Error aside, since when are empathy and reluctance to give up a pet symptomatic of hoarding? Isn't that simply being a good, caring owner?

You're reading it backwards.

Having empathy doesn't mean a person is a hoarder. One of the symptoms of hoarding animals is that they empathasize with the animals and don't want to give them up for fear that bad things will happen with the animal somewhere else. If the person hoarding the animals didn't feel anything towards the pets, they wouldn't be so reluctant to allow them to be removed. That's why you see such panic, because in their minds, the pets could be killed or mistreated if they allow the "rescuers" to take them away. They fear the humane society will put them to sleep or adopters will misuse them. As long as the pets are within their own hands(however poor the conditions, which they're often blind to) they feel they KNOW what's happening to the animals.

Hoarders emphasize with the pets.
People who emphasize with pets isn't neccasarily a hoarder.