Hundreds of small animals meant for adoption may have been frozen, fed to reptiles

[Caitlin]

For some reason, I feel this story casts reptile keepers in a bad light, even though, it was the Humane Society that was deceptive.

You're right about that mainly (IMO) because the general public dislikes snakes and really dislikes the notion of feeding cute furry animals to them. While I'm looking at it as an indicator of the need to support shelters and rescues, I think you and Bogertophis are absolutely correct in thinking that this situation does no favors at all to the reptile keeping community even though none of us would agree with what happened.