I've gotta vent to yall real quick. This really eats my lunch!

A few months back we sold an adult male amel corn and a yearling snow corn to a guy that lives near us. He seemed like an ok guy, nice as he could be. He seemed to know a little about keeping reptiles too so we felt good about selling him the corn. Well a week ago we get a text from the guy saying he is moving to a new house and his new landlords won't allow him to keep snakes. He said he'll just give us the corn back.

When we sold him the amel corn he was an amazing example of an amel and a big boy to boot, close to 1,000g. He was one of those snakes that never gives ya any problems and will eat anything in sight. The snow was also very healthy. Anyways, we meet up with the guy. The guy says the amel ate once for him and then regurgitated it and has not eaten since. Says he has tried everything to get him to eat. The snow also never ate for him he says and died shortly after selling it to him. I asked him the usual husbandry questions. He told us he didn't really give them heat other than occasionally putting an electric heating pad (human ones) or an electric blanket under him. They also shared the same tub, which I found out was a 15qt! I refrained from going ballistic on this guy being we were in public and I hauled butt out of there.

So now we have the amel back and he is skin and bones and he absolutely reaks of nasty, dirty corn snake, like when they musk, although he has not musked. Not sure what that is about. So far he has refused to eat for us as well. If he doesn't eat for us soon we may need to assist feed him because of how badly emaciated he is. If we can at least get something in him we get a fecal done.

This stuff really bothers me because we sell quite often and this is how it always seems to end up. Just like we take in rescues and every one arrives in the same shape as this poor corn. Is there anyone who actually cares for thier animals anymore? I always feel like whenever I sell one of our animals that its a death sentence.