Snake abuse

[wolfy-hound]

lol your acting like he told him to knock off a bank. It's a better alternative then having the snake die because the guy doesn't care about his own pet.

It's not about how bad an act it would be. It's against the T&S on the site to advise illegal acts. If you want to tell someone to go steal things, do it via PM or email.

To the OP, like I said, the caretakers are the ones that have any authority. You don't live there, you have no rights to the animal. THEY have to tell the dude, pay for the care, or we consider it abandoned. You can wail all you like about how sad the situation is, but you are not the owner or the caretaker(he left the animal in THEIR care, by leaving it in their house), so it's only the owners(renters, whatever)of the house that can insist he do anything.

If they consider the animal neglected, abandoned, etc, then they should be able to either "dispose" of the pet(i.e. find it a home, give it to you, take it to the animal control) and deal with him however they want/need to. They can call the cops and say "The dude left his snake and we want to give it to this other guy who will take care of it.." and see what the police tell them.

If you decide to simply take the animal, then you are committing theft. Those roommates will throw your butt under the bus, and the police will be knocking on your door. People on the site can say "Oh yeah, totally just take it" but they are not going to be the ones opening up the door to a couple annoyed cops. It's up to you to decide to either insist the roommates DO something, continue just feeding it yourself until it gets a RI and dies from the lousy conditions then feel really bad, or steal it and risk getting charged with theft.

And I'll pretty much guarantee that a judge is not going to consider "He didn't take proper care of it" to be a valid reason for theft. At BEST you'll end up paying the "worth" of the snake(at least that silly $200) plus court costs. Maybe those on the thread advocating the act will offer to pay it for you though.