Something like this just happened to a guy over on Kingsnake. I'm still unsure about the whole thing, but he had 2 snakes... (I watched this unfold over a couple of weeks,) last week he finally told us that he in fact only had 2 snakes, and he had a little over a hundred rats taken from him and gassed.

I didn't want to say it sounded like hoarding, but he pretty much said that is what he is being accused of.

I wasn't sure about he whole story about his circumstances, but he has made it clear at the end he had 2 wild caught snakes, a garter and gopher snake, and his live and frozen rats were being taken from him, counting for about 100 live rats, put down and now he is left with 14 adult rats.

People do do this, and it's sad when any animal has to live in those conditions.