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[Max™]

I don't dislike spiders but I vastly prefer snakes. I was even given a certificate of "snake friendliness" as a young child for handling one at a zoo, and I was too young to remember it.

I really don't understand what the deal is with snakes for people. Most of them literally can't hurt you and if you're handling a domestic snake then it almost certainly can't hurt you. I was even chased by an angry and wild cottonmouth as a slightly older child and did not develop any snake phobia.

Lord knows I don't have a phobia about them, and like anyone who has seen one, I want one of those crazy black and white storm trooper ball python morphs, but I can remember a couple of times when we'd be cooling off with a rope swing over a deep part of the creek in Texas and even though we didn't take into account situations where you don't let go (it kinda smacks you into the bank) I decided to take my chance with the dirt because of:

1. Looking down to see what looked like a manhole cover swimming below me, full grown snapping turtle? Ha ha, INTO THE DIRT I GO!

2. Looking down to see a bunch of adorable baby cottonmouths swimming past, in hindsight I don't think they hang out with momma, and I'm not totally sure how bitey and dangerous they are at that age, but once again I was quite happy to deal with a couple of bruises from the bank impact.

[Starver]

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[Hanslanda]

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1. Good idea. Full grown snapping turtles will FUCK YOU UP. My neighbor is rearing a young Alligator Snapping Turtle until it can be returned to the wild (It's about 12" across now, so that will be soon I reckon.)

2. Probably more dangerous than the mother. IIRC, baby snakes aren't able to control venom flow and will give you every ounce they have if they bite. Granted that's probably not anymore than a full grown snake would give you, but sometimes snakes give warning bites without venom. Dangerous either way.

[Max™]

Yeah, babies just fang and envenomate since they are gonna get eaten otherwise. Found a baby snapper once and a friend reached out for it, backhanded him and found a stick as big as his finger... *CRUNCHMUNCHCLICK*

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Sticks? What is this, amateur hour?

[Max™]

It was like this size though, small enough that for some reason my dumbass friend thought "HURR DURR, LETS SEE WHAT HAPPENS" before I smacked them.

[helmacon]

My grandad owned a pond with some snapping turtles in it. Someone who worked for him legit lost a finger once messing with the turtles. Ever since I found that out i've always been a little terrified about that.

[Neonivek]

Ok let me see... an unpopular idea...

PETA is a terrible animal rights activist group and should be disbanded.

In fact they have done far more to harm animal rights than anything else and I almost think the only reason they still exist is because SOMEHOW the higher ups actually earn money off it.

As well people need to stop giving PETA a voice and just ignore them like the bat crazy group they are. They are not a viable voice of animal rights... Just no more...

We don't need another scandal where they harass pokemon and go "Ohh sorry! It was a joke" because people actually got pissed at them.

[Reelya]

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/PETA

At the height of the Satanic panic in the late 1980s, PETA's newsletter reported (as fact) rumors that pets were being stolen by Satanists for animal sacrifice and "crucifixion" at Halloween.  PETA suggested that people keep their black cats inside around Halloween to protect them from Satanists.^[34] They still maintain a "Halloween advisory" on their website, omitting any mention of Satanism or animal sacrifice, yet noting with approval that many shelters refuse to adopt out black cats during October.^[35]

[TheBiggerFish]

.....Yup.

[misko27]

wow neo, standing up to PETA. what an unpopular stand. i'm suprised people haven't already burned you at the stake.

[Neonivek]

wow neo, standing up to PETA. what an unpopular stand. i'm suprised people haven't already burned you at the stake.

Yeah but saying that they should be disenfranchised is another step further then what most people would say.

That we should start to invalidate them in the same way that we do not let the KKK talk about immigration.

And before someone says false equivalence... PETA is a hate group.

[Tiruin]

While I am all x.x about making a new thread in my newbox...

wow neo, standing up to PETA. what an unpopular stand. i'm suprised people haven't already burned you at the stake.

[...]

I think that was sarcasm.
In which people do agree with you there, given what's been presented moreso lately.

[Neonivek]

Ohh... they have gotten worse?

[itisnotlogical]

I'm pretty sure people have known PETA was borderline extremist for a while. It just doesn't come up very often because PETA itself doesn't do anything newsworthy often enough.