My cousin has a ball python, but his mother is beyond stupid. She won't let him feet his snake anything larger than fuzzies (frozen/thawed) and won't let the snake eat more than once a month. This pisses me off to no end. His snake is a good two and a half years old, but is only maybe 2 feet and incredibly skinny. I tried to talk to her and ask her why she does it, she said she "doesn't want it getting big." The poor thing just looks sickly, has stuck shed all over, and scabs on it's head from stuck shed, I'm assuming. His water dish is filling with green algae.

They won't surrender the snake to me, and I don't know what to do about it. Should I call animal authorities and inform them of the mistreatment? Or should I try again to get them to give him to me again? I'm so lost and I hate seeing that poor snake like that.