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Signed. Everyone else do your part too. These are wonderfully misunderstood snakes. Thanks for posting this purplemuffin.

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You guys are awesome! Thanks so much! Every little thing we can do helps!

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Why not gather the info for contacting your Texas representatives? All the people signing some petition site could be emailing them. Emailing the people who make laws would have more impact.

You could still put up the petition site, but for anyone SERIOUS about wanting to have a voice in saying that indiscrimate killing of a population of native fauna is WRONG.. it should be a easy few moments to send an email saying "Please stop the rattlesnake round-ups, or at least install some regulations regarding the numbers allowed to be gathered and killed."

I've been in contact with them, but I know that there are those people out there who don't have the time/don't know how/whatever reasons won't do it. The petition is still nothing compared to an actual email(or phone call or meeting in person) but it at least gets more numbers and names out there who otherwise wouldn't have said or done anything. I'd love it if everyone who was against it could all show up and explain why this has to stop, but even those who join groups to help fight this cause have people sitting around twiddling their thumbs when it comes to doing anything other than liking a facebook page. :(

The next people I'm going to be contacting are the corporate sponsors of the roundups. I might be going to them to film what kind of nasty things happen there, and it's sort of a heads up to those sponsors "Do you REALLY want your logo proudly displayed in a place of animal cruelty?" Whether or not they care, no one likes to put their image out there with something so controversial, so hopefully some of them will pull out and stop helping fund these roundups. And hopefully the videos will get out there and be seen by a lot of people to let them really know what these are about. There are already some videos posted, but I will try to post some that are a little more understandable to the non-snake owner. There were things that I gasped over that my mom didn't understand was bad. I'd probably post the raw video as well as a version where I have an intro and actually point out specific clips and explain why these things are an issue, and why it's important that they stop. In that format I can also add in quotes from people making anti-venom about how the majority of the stuff milked here is unusable because it's been contaminated and also mention how rare rattlesnakes are becoming.