When neighbors etc start making someone's life miserable via broadcasting exaggerated negativity (minus any details of truth that might detract from shock value of what they are saying), it makes one think that the USA is NOT a free country at all! Someone who owns multiple animals regardless of species, is a favorite target of such troublemakers.

How does anybody who hasn't gone into your house and counted the snakes in their cages (not an easy thing to do either, many times if you tried to count the snakes in my snake enclosures, you would come up with zero visible snakes!) know how many snakes you might have? Where did the troublemakers pick their figure of 50 from, the sky? (Or more likely from their imagination enhanced by the quest to get attention with their whining!)

It's a sure thing that your snakes aren't barking in the night, or defecating in other people's yards or tearing up anybody's trash etc.

You're doing the best thing you can do when faced with such troublemakers with inflated imaginations and disregard for logic and truth....don't tell anybody anything.