Quote Originally Posted by sneakerpro View Post
Thank you. I needed the maturity-check!

I guess I got a little caught up in the "save-the-day" mindset. I'll have a long informative conversation with my friend, and hopefully his roommate the snake owner as well. Hopefully I can get through to them, or pick up an addition to the family for a reasonable price! It's just very frustrating to see it when I'm there...
You're welcome. I know the frustration of having someone not caring for an animal and you want to just do something but getting yourself arrested or making yourself an enemy isn't helping anybody especially not this snake.

When we rescued the big boa a few years back we worked for literally weeks with the previous owner, going over to her house to feed it for her (she got a 5 foot boa...THEN decides she's afraid of rats...yes even frozen dead rats! arrrrgh!), trying to make suggestions for care, etc. Every time we were there we mentioned that we would take the snake and find it a home if she was overwhelmed (yes and it was very hard to not say...."look you stupid twit! do you need to kill this snake to realize how absolutely ignorant you are!"). Eventually she came to realize that she was just not that "into" snakes and handed the boa over to us. By that time the poor thing had the beginnings of a nasty belly and was so stressed it had gone pretty much an all over muddy black color, so bad you could not tell it's saddle markings anymore.

Rauri aka Sonja is now in her wonderful forever home. It was worth every minute of putting up with that very stupid woman because it meant that snake got out alive. Had I told her what I really thought of her, she'd have refused to listen to Mike and I and eventually let us take the snake. I don't know what would have been that boa's fate if we hadn't bite our tongues and dealt with the idiot owner.

Oh and to further reiterate how stupid and foolish that girl was, she would drive around town, all the windows of her vehicle open and that big snake loose in the car. Apparently "the snake loves to go cruising".....lordy! I do like my husband's idea that there should be a law that an owner must have at least 2 working brains cells MORE than the animal they buy.