I agree with you 100% Dean

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Posted by Fred Albury(AZTEC REPTILES) on February 27, 2002 at 03:23:16:

In Reply to: I agree, I don't like this at all... posted by Dean Alessandrini on February 26, 2002 at 14:39:51:

: I�ve seen small retail stores in rural areas that sell wallets, hat bands, stuffed rattlesnakes, fangs, rattles etc�they are certainly not from all roadkill snakes (although some may have been intentionally road killed!)

: Makes me sick when I see that stuff. Yes true, some of us profit from selling captive born babies�sorry it�s a totally different deal. I don�t have a problem with selling products from, for example, farm raised alligators. I personally would not but them, but you are not harming wild populations, just like we do not harm wild pops by selling captive born babies.

: As far as I know�there is no such thing as a rattlesnake farm, and it would not be economically feasible to sell snake products from captive raised snakes. So they go rape the environment.

: So�I say�don�t buy this stuff�don�t create a market for some fools to go out and butcher wild predatory animals for profit.

: While your at it, don�t buy rattlesnake or python boots, purses�etc
: Nice that wild animals lose critical numbers and the rats they would eat run rampant and destroy thousands of lbs. of grain in starving nations�.

: So�somebody in the US can wear snakeskin boots to go line-dancing!!

: Have I digressed here??

Dean.........

You make some very valid points. I KNOW that this issue is going to be one of those issues that my voice gets drowned out by those who will say it is an acceptable practice, but I think that the sale of these items adds a mindset in the buying public that it is "COOL" to have dead snake items
around the house. And a LOT of people that come here dont know that much about snakes at all, frankly, and are VERY impressionable.
Again...I am not stirring a hornets nest, merely giving my take on this situation, if you dont agree with me...fine...I have no problem with that whatsoever. Mine is not the finite opinion in the Universe and is subject to error and change at any given time. But, when I think of people that actaually KEEP venemous snakes and even breed them! I MARVEL at the dedication it must take to work with snakes of that type and be able to produce them!!It is truly amazeing. I dont keep hots, never have, but am amazed by what people work with nowadays. And to think of any of these creatures as a mere decoration is appaling to me to say the least. A sad mirror of what they could be. Well thats enough of that. I wont be going to the site, but then again...I dont go to the cornsnake site either!! :)
To each his own I guess?

FRED

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: : I�ve seen small retail stores in rural areas that sell wallets, hat bands, stuffed rattlesnakes, fangs, rattles etc�they are certainly not from all roadkill snakes (although some may have been intentionally road killed!) : : Makes me sick when I see that stuff. Yes true, some of us profit from selling captive born babies�sorry it�s a totally different deal. I don�t have a problem with selling products from, for example, farm raised alligators. I personally would not but them, but you are not harming wild populations, just like we do not harm wild pops by selling captive born babies. : : As far as I know�there is no such thing as a rattlesnake farm, and it would not be economically feasible to sell snake products from captive raised snakes. So they go rape the environment. : : So�I say�don�t buy this stuff�don�t create a market for some fools to go out and butcher wild predatory animals for profit. : : While your at it, don�t buy rattlesnake or python boots, purses�etc : : Nice that wild animals lose critical numbers and the rats they would eat run rampant and destroy thousands of lbs. of grain in starving nations�. : : So�somebody in the US can wear snakeskin boots to go line-dancing!! : : Have I digressed here?? : Dean......... : You make some very valid points. I KNOW that this issue is going to be one of those issues that my voice gets drowned out by those who will say it is an acceptable practice, but I think that the sale of these items adds a mindset in the buying public that it is "COOL" to have dead snake items : around the house. And a LOT of people that come here dont know that much about snakes at all, frankly, and are VERY impressionable. : Again...I am not stirring a hornets nest, merely giving my take on this situation, if you dont agree with me...fine...I have no problem with that whatsoever. Mine is not the finite opinion in the Universe and is subject to error and change at any given time. But, when I think of people that actaually KEEP venemous snakes and even breed them! I MARVEL at the dedication it must take to work with snakes of that type and be able to produce them!!It is truly amazeing. I dont keep hots, never have, but am amazed by what people work with nowadays. And to think of any of these creatures as a mere decoration is appaling to me to say the least. A sad mirror of what they could be. Well thats enough of that. I wont be going to the site, but then again...I dont go to the cornsnake site either!! :) : To each his own I guess? : FRED

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