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The Las Cruces Reptile Rescue, of which I am a board member on, has drafted an online petition to ban the Alamogordo Rattlesnake roundup which occurs every year year in NM. This is ONLY for the NM roundup, however it is the first critical step in getting the other remaining states with roundups to pay some attention to this barbaric practice. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE IN NM TO SIGN THIS PETITION! Our goal is 10,000 signatures, which will be sent to the governors office. Our rescue's website is
http://www.awesomereptiles.com if you are interested in checking it out. The link to the petition can be found

Thanks guys!

Abhishek

The link to the petition can be found

Here

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Venomous snakes---best hobby on earth!
Bill Huseth

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>>The Las Cruces Reptile Rescue, of which I am a board member on, has drafted an online petition to ban the Alamogordo Rattlesnake roundup which occurs every year year in NM. This is ONLY for the NM roundup, however it is the first critical step in getting the other remaining states with roundups to pay some attention to this barbaric practice. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE IN NM TO SIGN THIS PETITION! Our goal is 10,000 signatures, which will be sent to the governors office. Our rescue's website is
>>http://www.awesomereptiles.com if you are interested in checking it out. The link to the petition can be found
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>>Thanks guys!
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>>Abhishek
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>>The link to the petition can be found
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>>Here
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Chris Law
U.A.P.P.E.A.L. (Uniting a Proactive Primate and Exotic Animal League)
Herpetoculture Element Representative

Let us know when you reach the 10,000 mark.
Shane
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Shane's Herp Lifelist
http://www.geocities.com/shane77@sbcglobal.net/my_page.html

Done! #274
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"Snakes in Peru are not there for decoration, they really bite people."

Professor David Warrell, Omaha 10/21/05

on behalf of the Las Cruces Reptile Rescue and the rattlesnakes of New Mexico, I want to thank each and every person who put their name down to abolish this barbaric festival.

Together we really can make a difference!

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#370 here.

#154 and lets hope this is effective.
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Tim Cole
www.Designeratrox.com/
www.AustinReptileService.net
www.AustinReptileExpo.com/
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Conservation through Education

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Does anyone know if any of these online petitions have ever been effective in accomplishing their goal. I've signed many of them over the years but don't recall an instance where they accomplished anything.

By the way # 535
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Scott Wahlberg

There are many others not necessarily interested in venomous snakes that would sign the petition from the other forums. Anyone interested in reptiles should have some interest in keeping rattlesnakes from being slaughtered. Anyone except for a complete "redneck" should have at least a little respect for life.

Michael

I have posted this on several other KS forums, as well as several different forums altogether.

On KS, this is posted in the Crotalidae forum, the General Snakes Forum, the Venomous Forum, and the Herp Law/Legal forum. Feel free to copy and post it anywhere else you deem appropriate.

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LOS ALAMOS MONITOR (New Mexico) 18 November 05 Letter: Help protect the state's snakes

Dear Editor,
Residents of New Mexico were outraged regarding the cruel sport of cockfighting. However, there is another archaic practice which is much, much worse, gets little notice and that is the annual rattlesnake roundup in Alamogordo.
Roy Thibodeau Director of Las Cruces Reptile Rescue (http://www.awesomereptiles.com ) is circulating a petition (http://new.petitiononline.com/roundups/petition.html) to abolish this heinous practice.
These rattlesnake roundups portray animal cruelty at its worst. Gasoline and other toxic chemicals are used to force the rattlesnake from their dens and in the process, kill other wildlife like the burrowing owl and could contaminate precious groundwater.
Snakes are crated without food or water months before the main event to await their massacre which is disguised as a fun filled, educational carnival. Sadly, this public spectacle is usually held around Earth Day; a day when we should be celebrating our wildlife, not destroying it.
Snakes are publicly killed, decapitated and probably skinned alive but before that, they are kicked, dropped, stomped on and tortured in every conceivable way.
This sadistic event is an embarrassment to the state of New Mexico and an insult to all of us who love wildlife and are concerned with the environment, the balance of nature and cruelty to animals. There is absolutely no justification for the mass slaughter of rattlesnakes and the brutality that goes along with it.
We hope that you will read and sign the petition
(http://new.petitiononline.com/roundups/petition.html) and view the signatures and comments from people all over the world, who are committed to stopping this annihilation of rattlesnakes. If you agree, please pass the petition to others. We are so pleased that Ray Powell (#65) signed the petition.
During his tenure as State Land Commissioner, he banned the collection of rattlesnakes on our state trust lands. Thankfully, he is again running for State Land Commissioner in 2006.
Thank you., Jan and Richard Macek, Los Alamos
Letter: Help protect the state's snakes