Brown spots on ball python's tail?

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FYI: public employees talk to each other. Your call to animal control (even if it were morally permissible to violate the trust someone places in you to care for their animal) will not be anonymous (IP, email, phone number). This is not worth ruining your academic career over. For pete's sake, people -- be careful what you recommend to minors.

Also, since you're talking very critically about the situation here, I think directing him here would be a very bad idea from a reasonable self-interest POV.

On animal control: where I live (Wisconsin) the state humane society thinks ball pythons should live in fish tanks with heat lamps:

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-sta...n-brown-county

It is a bit odd that though this situation is so terrible that you thought it prudent to get involved more deeply with it. Also, I'm a bit skeptical of the owl mention. Unless I'm mistaken, all native owls are protected in the US (I take it you're in the US -- your language strongly indicates you are). Which species of owl is this?

Ok, thank you for warning me about that. I won't direct him to this website, but maybe another informative website about snake care?

Would it be better to wait until I've graduated high school, and then report it? As much as I want the animals to be treated well, like you said its not worth ruining my academic career over

Yes, I live in the US. I'm not sure what species the owl is, but what I know about it is that its a rescue that wasn't suited to being released back into the wild once rehabilitated. He's had it since it was young, and as far as I know he has the licenses he needs for it and all of his other animals. I just feel as if being in a classroom instead of an actual wildlife center isn't the best for it, especially since its too old now to take out and show students so it doesn't have as much academic value, and he obviously doesn't provide optimal care for most of his animals

They are in a public school. Its an environmental education class, and I think there are actually two teachers, but only one teaches my hour. I may be exaggerating the mistreatment a bit, especially of the animals which I dont know specifics about how to care for. But the animals are in the classroom, or rather, the classroom, the mammal room (a storage room next to it), and a greenhouse and yard right outside the classroom

And about the jars of hot water, I will do that, thank you for the suggestion!