He pleaded guilty to having, between July and September, caused a reticulated python unnecessary suffering by failing to provide treatment for an oral infection, respiratory infection, a haemorrhage and swelling of the mouth and, at the same place and time, having failed to provide six boa constrictors and two reticulated pythons with a suitable environment and exposed them to maggots, a dead snake, rats and chicks.
Sentence was deferred for reports to Thursday, May 25.