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Post by vladimirgg on Mar 13, 2006 0:05:03 GMT -5
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060312/ap_on_fe_st/rattlesnake_roundup_3 I don't even NEED to state my reasons for being so disgusted. "Nobody bad-mouths the round up"- Lynn Adams Obviously, the only people this person talked to were people who hate snakes. Look at me Adams! Witness my bad-mouthing you sick nazis!!!! Ugh, sure it isn't diminshing more then one percent of the population.... yet. And that's what they will keep telling themselves. But if they let things get out of hand, rattlers will surely make the endangered species list. That's how most animals make the list. People either over hunt or they destroy the envioment, while telliing themselves that it isn't so bad. Then it starts to get worse! Short-sighted fools....... and not to mention the sheer crualty of it all. If it were cute little rabbits, someone would have protested by now! After all, more often then not, they only attack when they feel threatened. It's as if they forgot that these are living things with feelings. If most of them don't wind up eaten, the trauma might kill them! <_<
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Post by pitbulllady on Mar 13, 2006 6:20:51 GMT -5
I've been battling rattlesnake roundups for years. They actually still have these in Georgia, right next door to me, so to speak. This is a clear example of the hatred directed at snakes, and at reptiles in general. You can guarantee that nobody would be doing this to any mammalian animals, but it's hard to garner sympathy among the voting public for animals that are still perceived so widely as "out to get us" and "evil", and that do have the capacity to cause human fatalities. Anyone who is against these 'roundups" is labled a radical, which I'm certainly not. There is a huge difference in legitimate use of animals and abuse, and the latter benefits no one.
pitbulllady
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Post by RandallBoggs on Mar 13, 2006 15:37:53 GMT -5
Idiotic simpiltons... "Control the posionous population" Pfft...How pathedic. Humans don't "control" anything. If they chose to set up there, they should be willing to take risks. The reptiles were there first....
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Post by Veg on Mar 13, 2006 16:13:22 GMT -5
As an animal lover and animal rights activist, I am appauled by this rattlesnake roundup! Killing all those rattlesnakes because of their venom. Come on! Those snakes use their venom only when they need to defend themselves! I mean, do you see any venemous snakes going around and biting people just for the fun of it?! No! I don't think so!
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Post by nauticusvergil on Mar 13, 2006 16:16:34 GMT -5
Absolutely true, there's really no reason for this idiocy. It's no good when people go around doing stuff like this, no good at all. Just let them be, they aren't a direct threat, and as everyone else has said, only bite when provoked, as will ANY animal, the fight or flight as it's called. Ridiculous....<shakes head>
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Post by Beboots on Mar 13, 2006 17:22:43 GMT -5
Jeez... Reading that article gave me the shivers. Disgusting! >_<
You know, you have good timing. Right now, up here, there's a big debate going on again about the annual seal hunt (....take twenty -_-; ). One of the former Beatles and his wife came up and took pictures with a fluffy white baby seal to protest the seal hunts (they also got in lots of trouble because they petted one, which is against the law unless you have a permit to kill them). They protest the perceived violence of the hunts, etc., etc., and the whole world bleeds for them because awww, just look how cute and soft and innocent these seals are.
But what was described as happening to the snakes in that rattlesnake roundup article is even worse than what happens to the seals (ie; bonked on the head - usually pretty quick these days - killed in limited ammounts and sold for their skin to support Inuit families; by contrast being killed in the thousands just for existing). If there was a "Seal Roundup" up here with the events described in the article, who'd want to bet that hundreds of animal rights groups and thousands of citizens would line up to protest? But because they're just slimy evil snakes which are gonna kill our children we better kill 'em first. >_<; Disgusting.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Mar 14, 2006 15:18:54 GMT -5
Doesn't surprise me though...
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Post by vladimirgg on Mar 14, 2006 19:17:43 GMT -5
People just disgust me. <_<
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Post by Veg on Mar 15, 2006 17:47:09 GMT -5
I've heard of those seal hunts before. It really disgusts me because those people are killing little baby seals! They just get this flat wood and just pound the baby seals on the head while the seal mothers just watch helplessly. It's so sad! By the way, that former Beatle member is Paul McCartney. A big animal-rights person. He fought to put a ban on foie gras, which will take effect in 2012, which is not far off. You can read about it in this link. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3685602.stm
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Post by RandallBoggs on Mar 15, 2006 17:50:16 GMT -5
Good man.
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Post by nauticusvergil on Mar 15, 2006 17:51:58 GMT -5
Yeah he is. Saw twice in Concert, he's AMAZING! He has good beliefs too about ethics and such. Good man, like you said.
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Post by lizardgirl on Mar 25, 2006 11:08:52 GMT -5
Yeah, you see that's the problem- if you take the seals, the majority of people would never dare to say that they would actually kill one, as they're too sweet and everything. But with reptiles, most people can't seem to identify with them, and so therefore don't really care what happens to them.
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Post by FlameTheCharmander on Jun 12, 2006 2:02:06 GMT -5
Our world is like a pyramid of glass boxes, and inside the boxes are different species of animal, bugs (YEACK!), plants, Ect, Ect. If we start killing things off or cutting down forests, then it's like a big hand taking away glass boxes. The pyramid will start to crumble. If we continue to kill things, or cut down things then, KER-SPLAT! The pyramid falls down, and we all die. Kinda hard to explain. I just got it from a Zoobook about endangered species.
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Post by nauticusvergil on Jun 12, 2006 12:46:13 GMT -5
Yes, that's a good analogy actually, since everything IS connected.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Jun 12, 2006 16:21:17 GMT -5
True words Naticus... (Like your Avatar FTC ^_^)
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