I was just watching a program on TV about these rattlesnake roundups down in Florida of the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake. What a horribly disturbing thing to watch! Even if I didn't have a passion for snakes, this would still be awful for me. I think what got me was these parents taking their kids off for a "fun" day of watching these poor wild creatures brought in, some badly damaged already from exposure to the gas fumes that they use to drive them from their burrows, basically tortured, harrassed and then killed. Oh and the kids get a "really neat" toy...a rattlesnake's rattle stuck on stick.

What a completely wasteful and stupid human act this is! What a lesson to teach those kids about honoring our wild creatures and our world! I had to wonder if you walked around a round up and took a poll, just how many of those same folks would think what Michael Vick did with dog fighting was bad, but what they are doing with these snakes is just a "fun day".

I'm amazed in this day and age that something this barbaric is allowed to occur, especially with young kids in attendance! I really don't see how this is much different than dog fighting, male chicken fighting (the real word gets automatically censored LOL), bull fighting...whatever. Just disgusted me!