I'm watching Animal Planet and they did a "bust" on someone’s place that had reptiles (I guess they aren't allowed in San Francisco) and they made it sound horrible. Usually animal planet does a good job but... the guy has mostly BPs (include a pretty pretty piebald), I might have seen a Burmese, rainbow boa, jcp, red tail and a couple I don't recognize (boas and pythons though, and no reticulateds) and there are only 26 - and the officer is saying that it is a dangerous collection that could kill or seriously injure a large grown man. AND that having that many means that the man has an unnatural obsession with snakes.

He had them all in a nice rack set up - he was breeding mice to feed them and every single one was able to be handled without so much as a tag or hiss and the show is making sound like it was this horrible underground black market trading ring. They say that with this many snakes he must be into *gasp* trading.

This isn't the first time either - they picked up a Burmese on another episode (animal cops) and the guy said he had picked one up that was like 20' before and it ate a 60 lbs pig (which the narrator then pointed out was the size of a 7 year old child).


They do such a good job of challenging myths about pitbulls, I wish they would do the same about snakes.