A little information before getting into my story:

I am in a unique situation where I live at my work. My home is literally attached to my office. We run a hotel, and work 24/7.

Yesterday morning, Animal Control pulls up and asks to speak with the manager (me). I inform them that's me, and they tell me that someone has complained that I had 'over 20 illegal and poisonous snakes' in my possession. Which, I have neither. I told them no, and they were more then welcome to come take a look.

They came into my home and took pictures of everything, and asked me to tell them the type of each snake. They also took pictures of my dog, and checked her tags. They started to raise a stink, saying that all of my snakes need light AND heat. I tried to inform them that's not how its done, which is when they admitted their ignorance to snake care. They told me they would have to 'follow up' with their snake 'expert' and let me know.

They took down some more information, and told me they would follow up with me soon. The big thing I got hit with.... when we moved into this new county, I didn't switch over my dogs tags. 6 bucks and that is taken care of.

Yesterday, I was REALLY angry. I have a 2 yr old daughter, and this is not the type of thing I want to deal with due to some disgruntled ex customer/guest (we're 99% sure who it was, of course, they will not tell us - needless to say these people are dirty crackheads who scam their way though life). Today, I am not so sure how I feel about this. We take excellent care of these animals, and often have to put more money into them to rehab them from a bad situation (I can't help it, I have a soft spot for snakes in need). I feel like a child being scolded for something I didn't do.

I just needed to get this all off my chest to some people who would understand how I feel about reptiles, and snakes in general. Thanks BP.net world for listening to my story.