Who should have went by their better judgement, Marc, or MrBubbly? Either way, I don't think it was called for, and in no way is it going to help the OP or anyone, for that matter. What happened to if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all? Obviously the OP was not well educated on the care of their snakes, and they came here for help. Telling them to put their son in the special olympics has nothing to do with snakes, and will benefit no one except MrBubbly. We should be offering advice to these people so they don't do this again, not driving them away so they can be ignorant and unknowingly abuse their animals.