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I've been emailing PETA three times a day for a week. My question was whether they would support a bill that if passed could promote skinning our pets and/or selling the meat for food to recoup our losses. Being they are fighting against us I thought this info would be useful.
Here is their response. We'll see what comes of this but it would supposedly put them on the fence if bill promotes this....

Dear Mr. Beilstein,

Thank you for contacting PETA again. We appreciate your concern about reptiles who are killed for their skins.

PETA is an animal rights organization that believes that animals deserve the most basic rights and consideration of their own best interests regardless of whether they are useful to humans. Like us, they are capable of suffering and have interests in leading their own lives; therefore, they are not ours to use—for food, clothing, entertainment, or experimentation, or for any other reason. Therefore, PETA not only supports legislation that would prohibit people from keeping and/or breeding exotic animals but opposes any bill that would permit killing them for their skins.

To the video exposing the cruelty of the exotic skin trade, please visit http://www.PETATV.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=exotic_skins.

Thank you again for writing and for your concern for this important issue.

Sincerely,

Karen Dickerson
Correspondence Assistant
The PETA Foundation
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...between the bill and people being encouraged to kill and skin their snakes if it passes.

>>...between the bill and people being encouraged to kill and skin their snakes if it passes.

That's what I meant to say.

If PETA ever got it's collective head out of it's a@$ they wouldn't know what to do with themselves.
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Snakes:
1.1 gray banded kingsnake
1.1 california kingsnake
1.1 kenyan sand boa
1.1 western hognose snake
0.1 albino checkered garter
1.0 florida blue garter
1.1 het anery red sided garter
1.1 reverse oketee corn snake
1.1 blood red corn snake
0.1 amel striped corn
1.0 amel 66% het striped corn
1.1 het albino ball python
1.1 het ghost ball python
0.1 spider ball python
1.0 pastel ball python
1.1 mojave ball python
1.0 butter ball python
0.1 ringer ball python
1.0 African dinker ball python
0.3 normal ball python
1.0 piebald ball python
0.1 het piebald ball python
0.1 Genetic Stripe Ball Python
1.0 Het Genetic Stripe Ball Python
0.1 Mystic Ball Python

Turtles
1-eastern box turtle
2-spotted turtle
2-eastern/midland painted turtle intergrade
1.0-common musk turtle
1-Pink bellied sideneck
6-Northern red belly

Invertebrates
0.1 southern black widow
1-Tanzanian Giant Tailless whipscorpion

Amphibians
0.1 Ornate Horned Frog

Birds:
1.1 red avadavit
2-blue breasted cordon blue
1.1-black cheeked waxbill
0.1-star finch
1.0-Java rice sparrow
2.0-owl finch
1.0-hybrid munia
0.1-White bellied caique

Fish
2-corydoras cats
1-African upside down cat

normal stuff
0.1 black lab

What????

It's obviously a form letter. Some intern saw the word skinning and clicked on the form letter they are told to send. Idiots.
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Tri State Pythons

Who has ever suggested that we be encouraged to euthanize and skin our animals to recoup losses? NO ONE. Not even the folks that want this bill to pass have ever suggeted anything like that. Were did this idea come from?
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Andrew Wyatt
President USARK

When I first listened to the speech I thought Senator Inhofe was referring to the skin/fashion trade but then I went back and listened to it and from what I recall I think he says something to the effect that "restitution for people who legally owned these animals prior to the ban" I'd have to go back and take a listen again but to me that sounds like he is referring to our snakes and not just the skin trade. I could be wrong and it's been a while since I listened to it.
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Tosha
JET Pythons
The Blog
nihil facimus sed id bene facimus

He spoke of two seperate issues. 1. That they would address issues in regards to allowing trade in skins for exotic leather industry. 2. That if any bill passed he wanted time for businesses to transition out. Never was it suggested that people skin their animals and offer the skins for sale in the exotic leather trade.
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Andrew Wyatt
President USARK