NEED opinions & advice...

[TaylorMade]

Hey y'all! I'm in a little dilemma & I am wanting some advice from my fellow ball owners & lovers. A good friend of mine was given a male spider & a female pastel in June. At the time she is unemployled, so she can't afford to feed the two snakes every five days. So she came to me asking me to foster her two balls, which is no problem at all. Well, when I got the snakes they were visibly malnourished & taken care of improperly. She had a jar as the water bowl and no UTH, with a gord as a hide & a bunch of sharp shells for decoration. On top of that the female pastel has a stuck shed. & supposedly the male spider has not shed since she got them. They had not eaten in over 6 weeks. Keep in mind, they were born in June & should be on a 5 day feeding schedule. I tried offering her cash money for the two snakes (so I know they will be in good, educated hands) but she turned it down. I've had ball pythons & reptiles in general for a better part of my life. My last ball that passed away was 25 years old. I am very attentive to my reptiles, I check cage temps & humidity every other day, so she & I both know her snakes will be in the best of hands. I'm afraid I'm going to get them back to 100% health & properly fatten them up, and she's that's when she is going to want to take them back. If she does take them back I am very confident the snakes will be improperly taken care of again & they will go back to being unhealthy & malnourished. In this situation, what would y'all do? I figure if I keep offering her cash she may just take it. Or should I just keep a total count of how much I spend on mice to feed them, the $ spent on new hides, UTH, and a proper water dish?... & when she asks for the balls back I can give her the bill? It's a sticky situation, I know, but I just hate seeing snakes that aren't taken care of properly & aren't fed, it breaks my heart & I would hate to see these two snakes to deteriorate. Advice is wanted! Thanks in advance & blessed be!

I'm posting comparison pictures so y'all can better assess the situation.
I can't find my scale at the moment so I put each snake in the same Tupperware container for size comparison.

The first picture is of my female albino, born June 26, 2012.


Second picture is the male spider, born sometime in June as well.


Third picture is of the female pastel, also born sometime in June.