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People Killing snakes
I know this is a BP forum but as snake keepers I feel it effects us all. Have you seen these videos of rattlesnake round up, or the show rattlesnake republic? I'm so disgusted with the way these animals are being tortured and killed for amusement. Yet PETA won't do a thing about it because snakes are not a fuzzy and cute. There is not excuse what so ever for the treatment of these snakes, they are not over populated they are not killing people in record numbers. It simply for entertainment and it's sick. Thoughts?
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There was recently an article about rattle snake round ups in Reptile Magazine.
When I was stationed at Dyess AFB back in the mid-80's I attended the Sweetwater Rattle Snake Round Up one year. It was pretty bad.
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Yes I've seen it on youtube and on TV.
I hate how the rattlers have their mouths sewn shut with no anesthesia/pain killer to prevent them from biting. And I hate how they're put in a freezer to "calm them down". And after all that, people pose with them in photographs as if the snakes are trophies. Humans sicken me at times!
Although I wouldn't look to PETA for help. They kill more animals than they save.
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Rattlers should be controled some way. I dont belive they should do it the way they are doing it but where i live in texas rattlers always end up in my back yard where my kids play sooo
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Re: People Killing snakes
Originally Posted by kyser/wrx
Rattlers should be controled some way. I dont belive they should do it the way they are doing it but where i live in texas rattlers always end up in my back yard where my kids play sooo
They were here long before you, technically you are invading their land. Just my $.02.
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Originally Posted by GoFride
From ReptileChannel.com;
The Evans County Wildlife Club in Claxton, Georgia has decided to abandon its rattlesnake roundup in favor of a wildlife festival that will celebrate rattlesnakes instead of collecting and butchering them for their meat and skin, according to a press release put out by The Center for Biological Diversity. The group, along with Coastal Plains Institute, Protect All Living Species and One More Generation sent a letter of praise to the wildlife club for its decision to stop killing the snakes at its annual roundups.
The Evans County Wildlife Club will now hold the Claxton Rattlesnake and Wildlife Festival that will feature educational displays of the eastern diamondback rattlesnake and other wildlife native to the region. Held during the second weekend in March, the festival will feature educational programs, entertainment, and other activities for families.
"We're so happy the rattlesnake roundup in Claxton is being switched to a humane event that celebrates these great native animals and recognizes the importance of saving them," Collette Adkins Giese, an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity said in a prepared statement. "The Whigham Community Club needs to follow suit -- it needs to recognize that massacres of endangered animals are just wrong, and clearly the wrong message to send to young people about our relationship to the natural world."
The groups sent a petition letter with more than 5,000 signatures to the Whigham Community club asking that club to stop its roundup.
The groups maintain that these roundups are significantly reducing the population of Eastern diamondback rattlesnakes (Crotalus adamanteus), and that analysis of data from four of these roundups show a steady decline in weight of captured animals as well as the number collected. In addition to hunting pressures, these snakes are declining due to habitat loss and death by motor vehicle on the state's roads, the groups said.
The eastern diamondback rattlesnake is a venomous snake with a range throughout the southeastern United States from southeastern North Carolina to Florida and the Florida Keys, southern Mississippi to Eastern Louisiana and Georgia. Its native habitat includes forests, swamps, woodlands, and prairies. It preys primarily on rabbits, rats, and other rodents as well as certain birds. It is the largest rattlesnake species and average 3 1/2 to 5 1/2 feet in length.
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Originally Posted by kyser/wrx
Rattlers should be controled some way. I dont belive they should do it the way they are doing it but where i live in texas rattlers always end up in my back yard where my kids play sooo
I lived in the great state of Texas for five years, and I only came across a rattler once out in the middle of no where, so I just left it alone and walked the other way. As far as them coming into your property and getting near your kids that's another story, I'm a father so I'm with you on that. What these people are doing is not getting rattlers from where they can harm people, they are going out and hunting them down in there holes far away from where they will do harm to people. Then making a show of chopping off there heads.
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Originally Posted by kyser/wrx
Rattlers should be controled some way. I dont belive they should do it the way they are doing it but where i live in texas rattlers always end up in my back yard where my kids play sooo
Without those rattler your yard would be full of vermin sooo i guess pick your poison...
I personally would like to start a stray cat roundup and kill a bunch of them and sell their fur as souveneirs...I dont like cats to begin with, let alone a crapload of stray ones everywhere!
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Re: People Killing snakes
Originally Posted by Mike41793
I personally would like to start a stray cat roundup and kill a bunch of them and sell their fur as souveneirs...I dont like cats to begin with, let alone a crapload of stray ones everywhere!
Haha im with you on that Mike!
As far as the Rattlesnake Repubic show goes, i enjoy watching them catch the rattlers, though i block out what happens to them later. But when something gets overpopulated you have to do something to contain it. Im pretty sure theres a deer and quail forum somewhere online with people whinning about people killing them also.
I personally look forward to going snake hunting this spring, catching and releasing of course! I enjoy watching snakes in their natural habitat and watching how they react to humans.
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I love snakes to death, I have been fascinated with them my entire life. What these people are doing is cruel, but I must admit I am forced to kill snakes every now and then but the reason being I live on a lake, and I have four dogs that run around in the back heard and swim in that lake everyday. I feel terrible doing it but I don't want my dogs to get bitten.
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