Steve - When things started to go downhill at the store, your electric was shut off, you knew your landlords were getting p***ed, you had no money, why not just throw some ads on KS, your local newspaper etc. and sell the animals and equipment you had at the store at bargain prices to get them out of there and raise some cash? If the prices were right people would have been all over that.

Or at the very least pack them up in rubbermaids and take them to your house once the electric was off at the store? Being in the business so long you must have some friends that would have come and gotten the animals or helped you move them right? or held onto them for you until you could deal with them? Or were they not "high end" enough to be concerned about? I'm sure there were no mojo pieds left at the store...