Quote Originally Posted by littleindiangirl View Post
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.


That's so sad to hear about Connie... I think hoarding really is a sickness. When you see these people getting 90 cats, or I saw a man that had 110 plus birds loose in his home....or they get 110 rats removed from their homes, they honestlly love their animals.... but I don't think they realize that their critters are not being cared for properly. Even if that's the owner's intention... I just don't see a 80 yr old woman putting flea treatment on 75 cats alone... Or crating them to get their shots, etc...
Makes me sad.

A few weeks ago a prego female chewed out of a tub.... After no luck "catching" her I had to put down some bait. I felt so horrible, but I've seen what a rat problem can do-there was a pet store that had a colony of feeder ratties living in the walls, floors, etc... and I really don't want to piss off any neighbors.....So that was that. I kept thinking, 20 babies... that's 21 ratties that would be loose here.... just a bad situation all round...