Sure do, and you've proved that 'having a permit' does NOT eliminate the danger. Did this guy have the critters under control or is it just 'his papers' that are out of order?
Actually, I should have said you need a permit to use the Chevy, because the snake permit is a stamp of competence, not a regulation of ownership. If a fouteen year old ended up in the ICU because he drove his dad's Chevy into a tree and the DA charged him with driving without a license, you wouldn't ask, "Did this guy have that car under control or is it just 'his papers' that are out of order?" You would agree that he was unqualified.
If this guy had the training he would have gotten the license, just as a seventeen year old who's been to driving school will go get his license instead of driving without one.
You know, it's all well and good for us to have a libertarian impulse about events in ones own home, but these animals are dangerous, could escape and were owned/handled by a guy who had no idea what he was doing. There is a state interest here to protect the public from his stupidity, just as there is a state interest in making sure a person driving a two ton piece of machinery is not a danger to the rest of us.