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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is providing a reward of as much as £2,000 for data resulting in the arrest and conviction of the person(s) liable for dumping three corn snakes in North Wingfield.
The reptiles, which had been discovered on the entrance to a area off Haddon Road on January 31, had been deserted in freezing temperatures in a taped-up cardboard field with simply newspaper. All the snakes had been underweight and “lucky to be alive”, in keeping with an RSPCA inspector.
Elisa Allen, PETA’s Vice President of Programmes, stated: “We’re calling on anyone who has information about this case to come forward so that whoever abandoned these animals can be held accountable and prevented from endangering anyone else.
“It takes a disturbing and dangerous lack of empathy to abandon living, feeling beings.”
PETA – whose motto reads, partly, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way” – notes that snakes and different reptiles offered in pet retailers are both caught within the wild (probably damaging fragile ecosystems) or bred in cramped, filthy breeding mills. The animals are sometimes drugged and stuffed into suitcases in order that they are often illegally smuggled throughout borders. Many don’t survive the journey, and those that do normally arrive sick.
The group additional notes that captive snakes are the one species of animal permitted to be stored in enclosures by which they can’t unfurl their our bodies, regardless that scientific recommendation from the federal government’s Animal Welfare Committee has acknowledged that snakes must have sufficient area to totally stretch out.
The RSPCA is urging anybody with firsthand details about the incident to name its appeals line on 0300 123 8018.
