Quote Originally Posted by treeboa View Post
The problem with this story is that the source is an employee/friend of his. There are several holes here. If the government gave him the animals, why did they not, also, give him the permits needed to keep them? If there was no place to take the animals seized back then, why are they having no trouble finding a place now that they were seized from him? Lastly, from the pictures I've seen, his shop looks pretty small. How did he ever have room to properly house all these large animals? I don't like the fact that snakes are taking an undeserved beating in all this, but if this guy was breaking the law, he deserves what he gets.
Yea, former employee, but I did not see where it said friend, maybe I missed that, anyway. I do not recall reading anywhere that he was for sure holding anything illegally, if that was the case, where are the charges against him for that? The snake in question, from what I have read, was legal, was in his care prior to the current laws and was grandfathered in, or something of the sort. The article said the croc was given to him in 2002, was it not much later, 2009 or something that the new exotics laws were in place? Or did I miss something, I might have, if so can someone please point me to it?