23 Venomous Snakes (tl;dr)

[NennaMeerkat]

So tonight was the hoarding episode on Animal Planet where they showed the guy who owned 23 snakes. He seemed to keep them all separate in about 20 gallon aquariums scattered around the living room of a mobile home. His mom didn't want him in her home anymore and bought the trailer for him to move himself and the snakes in. They had hides, newspaper bottom, and food bowl. Everything was clean, the animals looked healthy and well fed, and he takes general precautions for escapes (heavy bricks or special screen tops that lock into place). He had mostly rattlesnakes but a few cottonmouths and copperheads.

He also had a few non-poisonous snakes that no one seemed to have a problem with. This was kind of what I expected. The people in his life ONLY had a problem with them because they were venomous snakes. They also complain cause he raised his own food. But yeah over and over again they were saying how dangerous it was, how he shouldn't have them cause they are dangerous ect.

Now I dunno about how to handle rattlesnakes but he did move them to a large plastic bin to feed them and he used a large long snake hook. Seemed he would hook the snake mid body and then hold the tail to move them from home to feeding bin.

The show seemed to say that the reason he had the snakes was because his parent's divorced when he was a young teen. Guy obviously is messed up because of it but I am not sure if that is the true reason for having the snakes.

Overall he seemed to really take care of the snakes and the main problem everyone was screaming was "they are venomous and dangerous get rid of them". The REAL problem I saw was that the guy was just generally lazy and lacked motivation to get a job. Maybe a bit disorganized as well, but I didn't see anything GROSSLY insane like the lady they were also showing that had 250 love birds.