Take a look at the sentence again:

On vacation, Patrick can trust neither his roommates nor the veterinary staff with Squeeze, his 9-foot albino python, so he hides his beloved reptile in a suitcase and sneaks him into hotel rooms.

When you use neither ... nor, you must have two equal grammatical items. After neither, notice that you have a noun phrase, his roommates. And after nor, you have a second noun phrase, the veterinary staff.

In addition, the sentence lists two actions, hides and sneaks, but both are simple present tense verbs, which maintains the parallel structure.

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