Brian Barczyk is fully and completely a terrible person with horrible morals and HORRIFIC animal care. He is undoubtedly a person that should have been cast out of animal care decades ago, but instead hes set this ugly precedence of keeping all reptiles in shoe box sized enclosures. He also perpetuates dangerous myths, like ball pythons living in termite mounds. This kind of verbiage allows people to feel good about keeping animals in small spaces with just paper towels for substrate, and water. No enrichment to allow for natural behaviors, hell, not even enough toom to stretch out because “they live in termite mounds and dont need space.” This type of keeping has also spread to his larger snakes as well.
Reticulated pythons, some showed here, are semi arboreal, intelligent creatures. They should not be kept in drawers.
This style of keeping is also dangerous because it prevents healthy brain growth and promotes obesity which can have lasting health impacts.
Aside from the myths, he cohabitates animals that are solitary. He keeps them in unclean conditions:
He home treats his animals with caustic veterinary disinfectant when they become ill, and has taught others to do this. You really should be receiving a culture and antibiotics from your vet, not blasting every breath of air they take with an antiseptic.
He recently discovered scaleless ball pythons along with another breeder. Here is how BHB took care of their scaleless ball python:
Not how dehydrated the skin is, and how thin the animal is as well. Other keepers scaleless animals are flawless. To add to the shadiness, BHB started selling scaleless head animals, which make fully scaleless animals, without making sure the animals would survive. This animal hasnt been spoken of since 2015. The single female he had died, and BHB has become strangely silent about the first scaleless suriving ball python. He is assumed dead.
There are a number of other really awfuk thibgs he does- provoking animals to bite as pranks to scare people, stressing geckos out to run accross a fake field for foot ball season- complete with people telling at them and poking at them to move faster: https://youtu.be/1mQXviNWFK4
But most of all, lets not forget his entirely fake apology that tried to gain pity votes from telling people he was going to kill himself. As someone who suffers with depression and specifically suicide, i was entriely in disbelief when he used that to manipulate people into coming back to his stable. Its disgusting behavior. https://youtu.be/o1p7NdtFOrk
I could continue to go on, but quite frankly have more important work to do UNDOING ALL THE BULLSHIT HE STARTED.
