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    Snakes are fashion accessories or "cool"...

    Um, no.

    I e-mailed this chick and told her she was lame for considering snakes to be objects or trends vs. living things...she e-mailed me back and basically cussed me out for having the "nerve" to confront her on it.

    Anyway, I was thinking perhaps she deserves some more e-mails from snake enthusiasts so she'll quit being a dumb*ss.


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    Re: Snakes are fashion accessories or "cool"...

    I'm cool with having a herp-wrangler at a birthday party where it's an educational event, but I envision the "brain child" behind that post just drops off a bucket o-snakes and takes the cash.
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    Re: Snakes are fashion accessories or "cool"...

    Somebodys gonna get bit. Somebodys gonna get bit.
    When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001? ~ Mark Cuban
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    Re: Snakes are fashion accessories or "cool"...

    Quote Originally Posted by Freakie_frog
    Somebodys gonna get bit. Somebodys gonna get bit.
    And then someone will get sued...

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    Re: Snakes are fashion accessories or "cool"...

    and then herpkeepers world wide will get trashed

    (hey! this is like the 3 wird game!!!!)
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    Re: Snakes are fashion accessories or "cool"...

    WOW ....


    I am at a loss for words.

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    Re: Snakes are fashion accessories or "cool"...

    This is what I sent her:

    I find your ad about burmese and ball pythons disgusting and demand you remove it immediately. Snakes are not fashion accessories and to see them advertised as such turns my stumach. The fact that balls and burms, docile and friendly snakes, are meant to make someone look tough totally removes the snake's dignity and right to be appreciated for what it is.

    It's the way that they are advertised that I find worse than anything else.

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    Re: Snakes are fashion accessories or "cool"...

    Hi! I saw your ad!
    I just wanted to ask you a few questions:
    Do you plan on telling the buyers/renters that no matter how tame their snakes are- if you harass and stress them out at 'parties' where 'god knows what' will be around that they will become agitated, and most likely bite. Also, could you tell me whether or not you plan on informing the 'buyers' about how big a burm will get? I mean, i know a 20ft burm around the neck is hot and all but...
    Also, will you be planning to tell them just how long these 'bad' and 'hip' little creatures will live? You know, the little punksters will probably have PTA meetings and soccer matches in the time it takes these LIVING CREATURES time to get into middle age. Who, then, will have time for the massive burm or ball python?
    What kind of person advertises their pets, creatures that intrust their lives with, as fashion accessories and cool or hip items. The only thing that's going to happen to these animals is being dumped in the woods or possibly sold-yet again-or killed (when it bites some twat's hand). Which, I rather a snake be dead than forced to spend hours upon hours outside of a climate controlled habitat where it can feel safe and secure and not inhale god knows what at those 'parties' where all the 'bad' kids will wear them.
    You are a sick and disgusting individual with no respect for creatures that would in the first place rather be left alone than prodded and poked by the stupid, cruel, and immature people that would be dumb enough to purchase one from you.
    Woe to the animals that reside in your home, I can only imagine what type of care you're giving them now if you think this is 'safe'. Honestly, you could probably get sued.
    Good day.
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    Ansli Pemberton.


    Email i wrote. hope it sent. blah. sick :cens0r:'s

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    Exclamation Re: Snakes are fashion accessories or "cool"...

    Darn, my e-mail won't send. Someone give her a link to here. I hate that stupid you-know-what.
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    Re: Snakes are fashion accessories or "cool"...

    Quote Originally Posted by Lovable sam
    Darn, my e-mail won't send. Someone give her a link to here. I hate that stupid you-know-what.
    Sam
    No...please don't give this person a link to BP.net. We are NOT here to hunt down unsuspecting folks and jump on them for poor snake care or attitudes towards the animals we love.

    If she finds this site, she should find a place that is inviting and safe for her to learn how to properly care for and respect these animals. Not a thread full of people wanting to rip her head off and feed it to her burm.

    I totally understand your frustration with the ad and its intent. It's appalling. But nasty letters telling her how stupid she is and what a bad person she is are not going to help one single snake in her care. If anything, it will just harden her heart to the community that truly respects these animals and she will never be willing to learn anything better.
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