Walking Dead kills Rattlesnake

[jason_ladouceur]

Am I the only one that noticed the eastern diamond back that was shown in this clip changed colour when the scene cut to it being pinned and killed? Do you really think a Hollywood actor would agree to kill one of the most potentially dangerous snakes in North America with a knife? The insurance liability alone is more then enough for the shows producers to never let that happen. The snake without a doubt was a real living eastern. But there is no way it was killed and eaten on the show.

[Craigaria]

They kill all kinds of snakes and reptiles on the survival shows for food. It doesn't bother me that they do it, either. I have been interested in cooking rattlesnake. I have heard they are good. A ton of rattlesnakes get shot during deer season in GA and I have asked my friends to bring me one if they shoot one. I'd rather eat it instead of it going to waste.

[TurkeyPython]

I'm thinking they probably used a pre-killed rattlesnake for that shot. It looked very real but I'm pretty sure you can't show things actually being killed on fictional shows and they wouldn't want to risk it killing their stars.

[DeadLegs]

There are NUMEROUS threads about this in other places where people are simply assuming that just because Norman Reedus has stated that the dead snake he held was indeed real, that they KILLED a snake on camera. This is just crazy to me. if you were to stab/cut off the head of a living snake, before the camera could cut away there would be a physical reaction from the remainder of the animal's body. In the scene, there is NOTHING. That animal was dead well before they ever shot this.

My thought, they used a living rattle snake up to the point where Daryl pins it down with a forked stick, then cut away and he stabs a snake that was already very dead.

Hollywood exploitation of animals is an obvious commonality and a huge problem, that's not the debate here. The debate is did they KILL an animal on purpose, on camera. I strongly believe they did not.

[jclaiborne]

As someone already mentioned if yoy watch you can see two diff snakes...also on talking dead they said they were eating eel not snake during the filming.

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[cheaversg]

lets say it were real and he killed the rattlesnake and really cooked it and ate it....
would yall be as mad. I personally have eaten rattlesnake before and maybe others of you have.
Its good. Do some of you not like that fact that it was killed in general or the fact that if it were real, it was on tv.

[J.P.]

the live snake they used for the scene could easily have been venomoid, or even defanged.

[sho220]

The only thing that should be killed off is this series...and that should have happened half way through season 1...

[Najakeeper]

The only thing that should be killed off is this series...and that should have happened half way through season 1...

I actually like the series. And I don't mind too much if they have "humanely" killed a non-endangered snake and ate it. I don't like it but I consume other types of meat so I cannot complain too much.

[sho220]

I actually like the series. And I don't mind too much if they have "humanely" killed a non-endangered snake and ate it. I don't like it but I consume other types of meat so I cannot complain too much.

I liked it too...until it turned into a soap opera...with an occasional zombie stumbling around here and there...