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AliCat37

AliCat37

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So, my mom went to take care of the horse tonight, and I didn't manage to get out the door fast enough to go, and she didn't realize I wanted to. She has been seeing lots of snakes, so I was excited to go.. But I didn't make it. She sends me a picture of a snake a little later, sitting on the road, titled "rattler." I looked at the pic and it was a bull snake. She didn't know, but believed me. So she was trying to get it off the road, and another car pulls up, the lady gets out and says "it's a rattler!" My mom said no, that it was a bull snake. Nope, not good enough for the other person. She jumped back in her truck, and ran him over so badly that he made a "pop" like a gun shot. My poor mom saw the whole thing, and now is convinced that the snake was a rattler, despite me telling her it isn't, and showing her videos of bulls imitating ratters. I am so upset, if I had gone, this poor kid would still be alive :( and maybe one less *not so nice word* may have gotten a small amount of education.
I just bought both my parents snake tongs off eBay so that next time they don't even have to try to figure anything out, just scoop the snakes up and move them.
At least my parents are like me, even of he HAD been a rattler, they know there was no reason to kill this poor thing :( rest in peace baby.
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What is wrong with people, seriously.

I am not a very alpha person, but that type of nonchalant cruelty would easily make me go off on someone.

I'd have taken down their license plate and reported it. Nonvenomous snakes in most states are protected so it is illegal to kill them. Unfortunately I doubt they'd get more than a slap on the wrist. From the CO State University site I found this: "The midget-faced rattlesnake (a subspecies of the western rattlesnake), the massasauga, and all nonpoisonous snakes are classified as nongame wildlife and are protected by state law, except as noted above."
 
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ZoologyGirl said:
What is wrong with people, seriously. I am not a very alpha person, but that type of nonchalant cruelty would easily make me go off on someone.

I'd have taken down their license plate and reported it. Nonvenomous snakes in most states are protected so it is illegal to kill them. Unfortunately I doubt they'd get more than a slap on the wrist. From the CO State University site I found this: "The midget-faced rattlesnake (a subspecies of the western rattlesnake), the massasauga, and all nonpoisonous snakes are classified as nongame wildlife and are protected by state law, except as noted above."
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The worst part is, this is someone we know. So getting their information shouldn't be a problem. Unfortunately I doubt that anyone would actually do anything about her killing him. An "honest" mistake, they would say.


And don't feel bad about it bringing tears to your eyes, I bawled for like.. An hour. This poor baby..
 
THIS kind of stuff is why I am being more outgoing and public about my interest in snakes. I'm normally a quiet, private person, but I'll tell anyone about how much we love snakes and show pictures of my kids with our snakes and wild snakes ... to get it out there that there are people who love these animals and maybe they'll think twice before doing exactly what that person did.

Every time I think about this, I cry. My kids would be thrilled for a month to get a glimpse of a wild bull snake. They just do not understand why anyone would kill them. My girls would be crying alongside me if I showed them this picture.
 
There is a weird disconnect in a lot of people that I just don't get. Most of these people that swerve to hit snakes or do any variety of other cruel things to them, would be personally horrified if anything similar were done to a furry or feathered animal of most any stripe. But it just does not seem to enter their heads at all that it is just as cruel to do that to something coldblooded or without legs.
 
Tavia said:
There is a weird disconnect in a lot of people that I just don't get. Most of these people that swerve to hit snakes or do any variety of other cruel things to them, would be personally horrified if anything similar were done to a furry or feathered animal of most any stripe. But it just does not seem to enter their heads at all that it is just as cruel to do that to something coldblooded or without legs.
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Exactly. I wish I could understand their thinking, but I literally can't even sympathize with that mind set. I just don't get it. Even if it WAS a rattler (which it obviously isn't), I don't see killing it. Maybe many years ago, before I knew what I do now, but sadly these people won't even give the time of day to try to learn.

I gave a presentation on snakes last Sunday at "Wolfstock". At least some people got to learn. Too bad she wasn't one of them there.
 
Any animal abuse is totally sickening, and killing an animal because you think it is dangerous is plain ignorant. I would report them too, even if nothing comes of it they will have (hopefully) gained an iota of common sense.
 
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