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This weekend is the largest rattlesnake round-up in Texas. The way the snakes are treated before they are slaughtered for public entertainment is sickening. I'd been posting on the Jaycees website all day, leaving polite messages about alternatives, such as the way Georgia turned their round ups into wildlife festivals (though it took the near decimation of the Eastern Diamondback population in Georgia for this to happen).

I've now been blocked from posting or commenting on the page.

The Jaycees claim that the venom collected is used for antivenom but the snakes are kept in such horrible conditions that no hospital would accept that venom. This year, they had to up the bounty on the rattlesnakes from $3.00 a pound to $10.00 a pound because it was so hard for them to find enough snakes to slaughter this year.

If you find this practice as abhorrent as I do, please consider posting POLITELY on the Jaycee FB page, the link is

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sweetwater-Jaycees-Rattlesnake-Round-Up/253049219648

Thank you,

ReallySusan

Just to make sure I have the most recent link. They moved their location to try to hide from us.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sweetwater-Jaycees-Rattlesnake-Round-Up/253049219648

I think many of us have been taunting them. I know I have
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If the politicians wanted to stop this horror, they would have done so years ago, but heck, they're just snakes, and most don't give a damn. Besides it's more sense to ban all snake keeping except folks with the sweetwater mentality. mike

I wounder if PETA or HSUS show up to protest? Why dont they try to stop these people? What-up Wayne's world! Lets see, brutal public killing is OK, keeping and breeding "BAD"......stupid Waynes World!!?? joe6pax

>>I wounder if PETA or HSUS show up to protest? Why dont they try to stop these people? What-up Wayne's world! Lets see, brutal public killing is OK, keeping and breeding "BAD"......stupid Waynes World!!?? joe6pax

Vic! Dontcha know? those groups dont like reptiles!

Crazy insane I know. But they dont want em in our homes and they wont protect m in the wild!
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