I don't quite understand this part:
"Coffee had a large collection of both Reticulated and Burmese pythons, which were possessed legally with a "Conditional Species Permit," before FWC made that permit obsolete by passing "Prohibited Species" rules in 2021. Therefore, his animals should have been grandfathered in and exempt from the new regulations. Nonetheless, after the rules banning the snakes were passed, Coffee chose to rehome 120 of his pythons, but he was unable to disperse all of his collection before an arbitrary FWC deadline. In an effort to remain on good terms with FWC, Coffee notified FWC in good faith about a year ago that he was having difficulties rehoming his animals in the short amount of time allowed by FWC. He asked FWC for more time, believing that he had no choice."
Why was an 'arbitrary deadline' (or any deadline at all) in place to rehome (I assume that means 'remove from Florida') animals that were 'exempt from the new regulations'? And why is the rehoming something that Coffee 'chose' if he was under order from FWC to do so (that is to say, that doesn't sound like a choice, bit the article calls it such).
Another question is why would it take a motivated person over a year to sell some snakes out of state? Chris Coffee has no ads up on Fauna, and no store according to a MorphMarket search, which are two great places to sell snakes. Bill McAdam has not sold a retic on MM since 2021 (and the last couple years sold only 2021 and 2019 hatchlings, so was still breeding them at that point), and has no ads on Fauna more recent than 2015.
This sounds like I'm victim blaming, which I'm not trying to do, but this doesn't all add up.
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