Touchy subject, snake remains.

[Mike Cavanaugh]

I'm sorry, but I don't understand how it's even possible for snake keepers/lovers to wear clothing that came from wild snakes.

I mean, wouldn't you feel HORRIBLE about a snake being killed so you can wear its pretty skin? Especially for people like you.

Would you feel differently if they ate the meat from the snake before using the skin for other stuff? Maybe they did.

[dsirkle]

Would you feel differently if they ate the meat from the snake before using the skin for other stuff? Maybe they did.

You can pretty much bank on it that not one part went to waste in Thailand.

[DutchHerp]

I know it's a culture for these people, and I know (some of) the meat is eaten, but I personally would feel horrible if I was wearing snake skin boots...

[Mike Cavanaugh]

You can pretty much bank on it that not one part went to waste in Thailand.

exactly. I guess that is why I would't see something like that as a bad thing....

[Peter Williams]

To be totally honest, I don't think there is anything wrong with it. I wouldn't want to skin an animal or anything myself, but if I could find a real taxidermist in my area, why not? Theres just something about spending thousands of dollars on an animal, and then just burying it when it dies? Imagine you had a 4000g 4 gene BP, wouldn't you want to preserve it forever? I don't know about turning it into clothing or accessories (MAYBE a wallet) but what I'm leaning towards is having the animal itself preserved in a neat pose. I for one can never see myself putting an adult snake thats died of natural causes into the ground, especially a cool morph. And to stray away from BP's for a moment, what if you had a full grown female retic or anaconda? Thats not something you can easily just bury, that would be quite a bit of work to dig a hole that big. I think it would be kind of neat to have a suit made. That may sound crazy, but you raised the animal, gave it a good life, and now you want to remember it forever. That's just how I feel.

[Smoke]

[QUOTE=Peter Williams;995668]To be totally honest, I don't think there is anything wrong with it. I wouldn't want to skin an animal or anything myself, but if I could find a real taxidermist in my area, why not? QUOTE]

I agree not sure I would have anything made out of it but I would maybe have the skin tacked to a cool peice of wood to make sort of a decrative peice.