Ed, here's a link I have that shows pet stores rules by state. It looks like unfortunately humane treatment in a lot of states only refers to dog and cats, not reptiles or other pets kept badly in a pet store. Hope it helps somewhat tho.

http://www.api4animals.org/1071.htm

If there's no law they are breaking, perhaps a quiet phone call to a local paper might be in order. The power of the press is fairly big and a story about a pet store with silently suffering reptiles might be of some interest to them. That can backfire tho as most people don't care anyways and probably don't want any snake sold in their city anyways.

Doesn't New York have some pretty strigent rules about snakes?


~~Jo~~