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> Ok, wait a minute, here.  I understand people have their opinions, but this
> is really hurtful.  I happen to have four pet snakes that I love dearly and
> consider to be family members.  Please be careful what you say about other
> people's "kids".  Besides that, there is no creature on earth that is
> "better off dead".  We as people have no right to pass judgement on another
> living thing that way, just because we don't consider tham cute and cuddly
> or useful to *us*.
>
>  - Victoria

If anyone started offing rattlesnakes on the huge cattle ranch we use 
for our CTR and endurance rides it would cost us the use of the 
ranch!  The ranch manager has made it quite clear that the snakes are 
welcome on the ranch -- to control rodents and especially to control 
ground squirrels (http://cecalaveras.ucdavis.edu/squirrel.htm)  whose 
holes will swallow a hoof and trip up a horse or cow, and whose 
burrows destabilize slopes and undermine trees,  and whose fleas 
carry plague in our area.
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Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA
http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/
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