Posted on 01/22/2009 8:55:36 AM PST by rabscuttle385
You really have to wonder about the soundness of minds of someone who would keep 300 rats in their house. At least he did chose the baby over the rats.
When you keep animals, you accept responsibility for their care and abusing animals of any type is simply unacceptable.
The guy should have gotten a heavier sentence or been sent to jail.
What a jerk.
Why did he have so many rats anyway?
He doesn’t know any large snake owners?
First, laws against abandoning rats... Next, laws against voting them out of office or saying unflattering things about them. That’s how tyranny is done.
I’ve had a pet rat before. They are actually really sweet animals when hand raised.
You know they are actually noble creatures compared to the human variety.
I think he probably would have been okay just releasing the rats, but he left them in containers to starve. That’s pretty cruel (or thoughtless).
What a shame. Most pet stores that sell reptiles would have bought them as feeders. At least they would have died quickly and served a purpose....
I breed rats and mice for my reptiles. They are actually pretty cool pets.
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