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40 pythons 'rescued'

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40 ball pythons have been 'rescued' from a hotel room in Canada where they were being kept illegally. The comments to the first link are depressing. Snake hate seems to be at an all time high right now.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/...ons-rescued-from-canadian-motel-room#comments

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/story/2013/08/16/pythons-motel-brantford.html

This is a quick video of the snakes:

http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Canada/toronto/ID/2401468502/

That normal is adorable!!
 
What was with the articles saying they were over crowded and had no water? They looked fine to me, clean tubs, water bowls. Where are the details? It sounded like they were just moving them, if so then the law against pythons shouldn't apply if they're not residents of the area. It reminds me of the stories I read of people traveling with pit bulls and having their pets taken away and put down when they got stopped passing through a town that banned them. All the snake hate is sad to hear, some of those people are so ignorant they don't even realize not all pythons are 30ft man eaters that the media makes them into.
 
This makes me so angry. Obviously, we all know that ball pythons do not get anywhere near big enough to do any real harm to anyone. Even to most unsocialized and aggressive ball python wouldn't even consider constricting a baby because we all know that would be much too large of prey for them. Some of those ball pythons had to have been very valuable too. Where is the outrage over the thousands of dollars those owners had stolen from them? Not a single one of them looked "distressed" either. I love the first shot of the one with its head up like its a cobra too. This is just media playing on the fears of the ignorant. Unless we do more to educate people, we're going to have our rights to own our own animals taken from us one by one and those ignorant people will be cheering the whole time.
 
Sometimes I just want to reach through the screen and punch people in the mouth. I had to stop reading the comments on that.

I'm not sure which annoys me more, the ones talking about wanting the snakes dead, or the ones that think no one should ever have a snake because it isn't a pet in their OPINION. Your opinion is ludicrous. By that logic, mankind should never have domesticated wolves or wildcats, creating the cats and dogs we have today.
 
Well I guess they could do the same thing here when the vendors go to big shows im sure tinley will have tons of animals in hotel rooms. Anyway laws should be followed when it comes to animals im just surprised this forum has said nothing about that
 
Certainly if the motel was upset that the snakes were in there I can understand that......but there is no way after taking a look at that video that anyone who knows anything about ball pythons could say they were being kept in "distress"ful conditions......geez. If that's the case, then our routine method of shipping snakes overnight in cloth bags is downright barbaric (when it's perfectly fine of course!). I feel sorry for those owners and I too hate it when ignorant people choose to lump all pythons into the child killing category.
 
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