Oh my fuck.
I've had about four years experience working with various animals from various backgrounds (I've mentioned this before in other threads, sorry to repeat!). I had a job at a boarding kennels/vets as well as extra experience from being raised by ex-farmers, as well as dealing with animals in the wild (pest control/hunting, tracking, general observation). This all encompassed things like the care, training, understanding and wellbeing of various critters, so I like to think I know a thing or two. My expertise runs more in the mammalian/avian side of things, but I have had some experience with exotics as well.
This guy is a fucking tool and should have all of those poor reptiles removed and rehomed.
It's tards like this that give fuel to arsebandits like PETA to run around 'rescuing' everyone's pets whether they are abused or happy and healthy. When the hell will people learn that, regardless of whether it has fur, feathers or scales, education on the proper way to take care of pets and a crackdown on backyard breeders and irresponsible sellers is key to solving this problem rather than an outright ban or purge on various species.
I'm not saying that 'every animal is a good animal', as that's pure complacency and simply not true. Some species have various traits that are hardwired into them and cannot be overlooked or 'cured', and often lead to behavioural problems. The real problem is that a lot of pet owners neglect to do the proper research required for a certain species, such as checking temperament, common traits, socialisation methods and suitable environments before buying a pet, often buying in pets for appearance, trend and status.
An example I like to bring up often is the husky. I'm not trying to offend any husky owners on here, but I'm going purely by experience. Huskies are an old breed that has been bred primarily for pulling and transportation, not companionship. As a result, huskies are, let's not beat around the bush, stupid. They are thick as pigshit. It's been hardwired into their DNA over generation after generation that they want to pull things and run around a lot, and not much else; this makes them hard to train to house life as they have been bred as a kennel-dog, for an outdoor life with a specific function. People buy in huskies purely for their looks, (those blank, vacant stares that for some reason people like!) and completely fail to fulfill their inbuilt need for tons of exercise. A well-exercised husky will be healthy and happy so long as it gets to run like hell and get cuddles for doing so. A bored husky will turn into one of the nastiest destruction machines that I have ever seen in any breed; all that natural strength and energy has to go somewhere after all, and as huskies are too stupid to immediately differentiate between 'good' and 'bad' indoor behaviour, they can and will destroy everything they can get their teeth on. This destruction usually starts when the dog hits puberty and becomes hormonal and slightly unpredictable, as with any dog, and that cute little puppy you thought was going to turn into a loveable wolf lookalike lapdog will become a furry tornado, and soon he'll be up for adoption with all the other year-old huskies, wolfdogs and crosses that you see constantly flooding shelters alongside the tidal wave of abused staffy bulls.
No, this isn't a husky hate train, it's just an example. The point I'm trying to make here is that no matter the species, education is paramount for a happy life for both owners and pets. The uneducated should just not be allowed to own pets, case closed.
No animal is a 'good' animal guaranteed; but a 'good' owner is something that can and should be guaranteed in order to bring out the best in any animal.