I hope I don't start a flame war with this but I gotta share with other snake-type people.

Monday night I went to see Nine Inch Nails in concert (killer show BTW), and there were the obligatory radio-station and social-group tents along the entry to the venue.

While standing in line to look at overpriced black T-shirts, a young lady came up and asked my group if we had "signed the petion yet?". Her T-shirt said www.peta2.com on it. It took me a few seconds to figure out it was People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals. I asked "what is the petition about" (good english on my part) and was told "to protect animals".

My big issue with PETA is that one of their their eventual goals (according to their spokeswoman/president) is to stop humans from "owning" animals. Essentially, they find "keeping" pets unethical.

I declined to sign the petition "because I have and love pets", this confused the young lady and then asked what kind of pets. My answer was "exotics, including snakes".

She then proclaimed that "people shouldn't be allowed to keep exotic animals". -- That really got me warmed up.

After about 30 seconds of asking her about the things uncovered by Showtime's Bulls---! show (penn and teller) and asking if she supported PETAs method of killing healthy cats and dogs versus putting them up for adoption she explained that killing them was best for them. This really honked off the two dedicated dog/cat resucers in my group.

Not sure if I'm fishing for comments, or just needed to vent.