Well haven't seen the kids since that day. Hopefully they'll come around today because they wanted to see me feed my boa, and I can ask them for an update on the little guy. I'm holding out hope that the parents took the advice I gave to their kids and don't just brush it off. There's a lot of people that get very defensive when you're "up in their business", even if it's just because you're worried about the welfare of another.I see a lot of stubborn people with animals, that know they're doing something wrong but get defensive because they don't want to admit it. It's really sad and frustrating.
I guess the parents have good intentions at heart with enabling the kids to buy snakes, but from what they explained to me they just did NO research themselves and just took the instructions of the pet store. Unfortunately, the poor snakes are the ones that pay the price.