Animal Hoarders AZ

[Kinra]

AP blows. Looking at the video i'm uncertain of how underweight the snakes actually were. Without being able to see with my own eyes i certainly don't trust AP and their agents to accurately describe anything to do with herps...

The video I linked shows the snakes. They really don't look too under weight to me, but I don't have experience with burms and retics...

[llovelace]

What a croc!! I half expected to see underweight animal, lots of stuck shed. The snakes didn't appear to be in bad shape. But hey that's AP for ya. I have 50+ snakes in a bedroom, some are off feed because of breeding and are a little under weight, guess I'm a hoarder too.

240lbs of rabbits per month for 4 giants, hmmm

[Daybreaker]

....guess I'm a hoarder too.

Many on this site would appear to be hoarders to people who don't understand the hobby.

IMO the line between collecting and hoarding is that someone who collects understands the care involved with keeping the animals and has the means to do so while a hoarder keeps the animals in poor conditions and doesn't care for them properly (they may have good intentions but they don't have the knowledge and/or financial means to take care of the animals).

[SpiffyYoshi]

Don't dogs statistically attack, mame, and kill far more people than pet snakes? I'm tired of the media picking and choosing what animals are "good pets" or not based on nothing but stupid uneducated opinions.

[RestlessRobie]

well bieng new here I only have one snake atm but I agree I saw some nice looking snakes didnt seem terribly underweight or to have a RI but what do I know I am a Noob but this type of crap from the Media is why I turned off cable a couple years ago.

Robie

[wolfy-hound]

Dogs kill more people in a single year than pythons have killed in the past 30 years. Also, dogs regularly kill people who are not the owner/family, while pythons have never killed a member of the public(i.e. not the owner or family) if I remember the stats correctly.

AP is showing their Animal Rights extremist tones a lot more in the last year or so.

[AJs Snake House]

*facepalm*

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[ahunt037]

I just like that the herp society went in and saved a couple snakes and Im not standing up for the hero society but how many of u have been interviewed then read the story and found some things in the story not true I know it has happened to me it wasn't bad just the reporters or editors needed to add something to make it more interesting (example: 240lbs for 4 snakes, 40lbs under weight, hunting jack rabbits to feed the snakes) all this used to draw ppl in and I just thought it was good that they went in and got those animals out of a potentially horrible situation that's all I'm thankful for I agree I hate the media and AP but atleast some good came out of this stupid tv show right???

[mpkeelee]

Show up on my doorstep and ill show them my pet double-barrel. I hate lies and advertisement and the bad name given to good animals because people want to make money. Dogs and cats have been out of control for how long and nobody seems to care. Just because they are "normal" pets. These people just pissed me off.

[bubblz]

Know your limits,.. he realized that he was in over his head (be it with a little persuasion) before it Seriously got out of hand and accepted help. They didn't take all of his animals,.. even though they could have. Just the one's he was willing to give up and needed the most help.

It could've been so much worse,.... I'm glad he got and accepted help in time.