850 snakes found at New York animal control officer's house

[Stewart_Reptiles]

that sucks.


they should leave the snakes with him (at least the ones that he is allowed to own) and just put a moratorium on snake sales until the legal details are resolved.

its the same in Germany. People start hobbies, the hobbies grow, and if the hobbies start generating revenue its fine as long as the costs are still bigger than the revenue. But there comes a point when you need to turn it into a proper company and pay taxes and get the financial stuff and bookkeeping and bureaucracy right.

i guess he missed the right moment to turn it into a company, and now instead of a pretty standard tax audit, he got a sting operation + bust.

if they ceise the snakes, we could see some terrible price undercutting for some morphs if they eventually hit the market. (euthanizing high-end morphs and healthy snakes would be a terrible destructive sin, i consider it unlikely.)

i hope for the best, which would be that he can keep his snakes and can soon sell some on his own terms, and pay the back taxes and fines and somehow turn it into a legitimate company.

if it gets too big, better be CEO and make it a company, even if you still see it as a hobby. even if it will be a tiny company with most profits flowing back into the collection.

And you missed an important part which is the one where he owns some animals "ILLEGALLY" among other thing.

Ignorance of the law (in his case he is well aware of the law) is not an excuse and people like that hurt the entire industry simply because all they care about is themselves.

Additionally he brought this on himself (if you can take care of 800+ snakes I am pretty sure you can work your job as animal control officer) he got caught and it got worse than what he was originally investigated for.

Authorities spotted the snakes during an investigation into whether Parrinello was working while on disability leave from his town job.

If he had played by the rules he would not be having this type of issue making all snake keepers look bad because of yet again some bad press.