I've got a moral question

[olstyn]

Personally, I am WAY more concerned about the fact that you say he has/had a few venomous snakes as well, but you didn't seem 100% positive he still had them, or even that you knew more than that he at some point in time had been in possession of them. It's a LOT more dangerous if those little puppies end up getting out and into a neighbors' garage, or have an unfortunate run-in with a kid playing outside and sees the "pretty snake". I know that sounds really extreme, but from the information we've been given, there's no way to determine whether this guy is a responsible owner or not. Venomous snakes are not second-chance animals, and for all we know he could have anything from a Copperhead to a Taipan. That sounds like a much bigger problem than his Burms.

Where are you getting the impression that any of these supposed animals are improperly or unsafely housed or kept? The only channel of information we have on this stuff is the the OP, and even if he'd been highly detail-oriented in his description of the situation, which he hasn't, we'd still only be getting one side of the story, and that from someone who admits to a "falling out" with the person on the other side of the story. It's not exactly useful testimony, let alone reliable.

I'm as concerned for the safety of the public as the next guy, but you're over-amping the worry factor on this in a big way. If there was more and clearer information available, you might have a point here, but as it stands, we can't do anything but speculate based on assumptions of unknown quality, and that really doesn't get us anywhere useful.