As I live and breathe- more hate. I'm sick of all the homosexual hating, but hating something that can't stand up for itself? Emailed to Bev Mattocks (CILC) and John Earnhardt (Cisco):

"Snakes play a very important part to the environment. They keep the rodent population from spreading like wildfire, especially at the rate they reproduce- as well as the diseases they carry. They do not eat only twice a year. I keep snakes that I do conservation demonstrations, including dangerous ones, and I can assure you these animals eat like every other reptile. They hibernate, they eat twice a week, they drink water- just like every other reptile. Teaching children this is important, not to kill one on sight. While it is true that a headless snake's severed head can harm you, if you prick yourself on the fang and venom happens to enter the bloodstream, the body cannot harm you. When the head is severed the nerves are still firing, causing the body to move, however it is not alive, it's in the dying phase. Pouring gasoline and any other liquid/gas into a snake den is an abomination. Someone with a problem of a snake den on their property should call their state's Department of Natural Resources to handle the situation and the problem will be moved. Cattle are not in immediate danger to snakes. The snake sees that the cattle are too big and won't make a meal, so it leaves it alone unless the cattle harass the snakes, in which case they will bite in self defense. Whatever hatred adults have for snakes should not be passed on to children lined with falsified information. Snakes will not try to chase you either- if you are "chased" by a snake, you happen to be escaping in the same direction. I am from Texas, born and raised, and there is a large important, but fragile ecosystem that shouldn't be bothered. Some rattlesnakes are now on the verge of extinction because of uninformed adults who as children, like these, had fear implanted into their brains. As for the Rattlesnake Roundups, the beheading, draining blood, and overall abuse is unacceptable. To catch, do demonstrations about milking and anti-venom and then releasing them in very un-suburbian areas is important and should be the guidelines for the Roundup. The abuse that is being taught is cruelty in every sense. There is no "protecting ourselves and animals". How is killing an animal that is hiding from you, and is terrified of humans, protection of animals? Everything being told to these children is a bold faced lie. I know you probably won't reply to this, but you've read the truth now."

It's pretty hard to stay professional. The more emails I write to people regarding things like this, the harder it is to weld that huge filter on my mouth. My last email to HSUS was never replied to out of cowardice and this one won't be either. As much as I want to bash these idiots over the head with a large pane of glass---