I was referring to:

"Among the critter contraband were seven types of endangered species: 15 red-footed tortoises, three leopard tortoises, two elongated tortoises, 14 African-spurred tortoises, three macklot pythons, two forsten tortoises and six rainbow boa constrictors."

I'm not so sure we have seven types of ENDANGERED species here? Very inflammatory and misleading statement. They may need to have been captive born and required a permit between borders, but the suggestion is that they are critically endangered and were taken from the wild. I'm pretty sure they were captive born and they were not taken from the wild.

"Thirty bags of dead rodents were found in an upstairs fridge."

So what? Just snake food, After all he is reported to be in the feeder business. Sounds so sinister. That's what I'm talking about.

"Both Andrew and Tricia have both been previously convicted of cruelty to animals when they were living in Napanee, Ont., Anger told the court."

An unnecessarily titillating hint at evil doing that is irrelevant and prejudicial. I bet the HSUS guys have set a pretty high bar there in Canada. Nothing about the possibility that the rodent operation may have qualified for that judgment.

This article looks as if it were written straight from the HSUS Play Book.

I'm not saying these are good people, I'm just saying the press is doing a disservice to their readers with all this sensationalism.

jsc
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