What are your thoughts on "defanging" venomous snakes? People do this to venomous snakes to make them more desirable as pets, and also when using them in acts, such as snake "charming." They do not actually defang the snake, but they do perform a sometimes-traumatic surgery to remove the venom producing glands.
Personally, I think it's horrible to take away a natural part of an animal just to have it as a pet. Then again, we do that to cats/dogs by neutering them, and this in itself is a good thing, because it keeps the population down, thankfully. But to take a venomous snake's venom glands away, just seems sickening and purposeless to me.
I have seen "venomoid" (the technical term for "defanged" snakes for sale on KS classifieds, and it really bothered me. Your thoughts?