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wheremyscalesslither:

Here’s a user you might wanna block

Username: always-in-pursuit

Thinks it’s cool to kill snakes. Also reblogged a picture of my snake and attached a picture of a very bloody rattlesnake.

I’m afraid he’s one of those tuff mans who goes into the snake tag and reblogs nasty antisnake stuff just to get attention. Poor boo.

Actually, he reblogged it from me.
The fact of the matter is that in the part of rural America where he and I live, rattlesnakes are a destructive and invasive species, that are very detrimental to the inner-workings of rural land. Your ignorance to this is understandable as you seem like a metropolitan raised person, which is fine, but it doesn’t change the fact that even if we had one tenth the amount of rattlesnakes we do, we’d still have too many. They kill cattle, pets, and people. They destroy the homes of other woodland creatures, and they disrupt the ecosystem.

Sometimes, people have to kill things to produce a quality of life, and being born and raised in that brings with it a de-sensitization to many things, one of them being the lives of slithering cancer.

And for the record, your reaction was absolutely uncalled for, and very immature.

All of this is no reason to add a picture of a maimed animal TO A POST ABOUT SOMEBODY’S PET. That’s like if I put a picture of a recently mauled to death bait dog onto somebody’s post about their puppy. Unacceptable.

Science says no, my dude.

The fact is, humans and cattle are the invasive species. Rattlers are a vital part of the ecosystems in which they live. Less than 0.0025% of snakebites end in death for the human– you’re more likely to die from a dog bite, but you wouldn’t say that dogs are cancer, would you? (EDIT: well, apparently he might) When you say they “destroy the homes of other woodland creatures, and they disrupt the ecosystem,” you’re… well, you’re wrong. How exactly can a small snake destroy the homes of other woodland creatures? They don’t disrupt the ecosystem- they keep the rodent population down. Furthermore, saying that snakes are a threat to your cattle is also wrong. Simply put, cattle are too big for rattlesnakes to be much of a threat. Here’s a bunch of farmers talking about it. The Merck vet manual notes that cattle and horses rarely die from snakebite.

Also: I grew up in rural southern Indiana. There were maybe 10,000 people in my whole county; more than 75% of the land is ag land. My nearest neighbor is a horse farm, and the biggest industry in the area is turkey farming, followed by hogs. Where I’m from, people respect snakes because they keep mice and rats out of the feed barn. Rodents are one of the biggest threats to any ag industry– the threat to grain farmers is obvious, but they’ll get into cattle feed just as easily as they get into any other stored crop. Don’t use an agrarian lifestyle as an excuse for ignorance or churlish behavior- it makes the rest of us look bad.

However, having a look through your blog, I honestly don’t think you care. I think maybe you get off on rustling jimmies and just being a dick in general- what’s your line, you can’t get offended if you’re not a little bitch?

And- ah, yes, you’re 19 and going to teach our kids math.

Just block and move on, folks. This one’s all hat and no cattle.

Bahahahahahaha mic drop