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You come across as rude and ignorant because you are so intent on expressing your hatred to someone that you pretty much know will be offended. Is there any point in offending me? Is there some reason that you have to push your hatred in the face of those who disagree with you?

I don't like chihuahua dogs, but I don't try to push my dislike for these dogs in the face of someone who likes them. Doing so would be rude. My parents tried to teach me better than to be rude. It's a shame that yours didn't.

There's a time for fighting against liberal stupidity, but the point of the General/Chat section of the forum was to make room for threads that weren't about those issues where we must constantly fight. I enjoyed seeing what kind of pets some of the candidates have. I enjoy talking to people about their pets and about animals in general. The point of this thread was to take a break from the big issues and have a pleasant thread about pets. Instead of following that theme, you're pushing your ignorance at me. That makes you someone who needs to grow up.

Bill

Sorry to offend you Bill, I’ll explain. When our oldest child was 5 months old we moved to a wooded piece of property in the country on a creek. This land had never been cleared and little did I know it was snake central. The snake population consisted of copperheads, water moccasins and coral snakes, rarely did I see a non poisonous snake.

We raised 3 children there and only through my constant vigilance did they grow up with out being bitten and killed, but some of our dogs and cats were. I killed a snake a day when we first moved there and continued to find them in the sandbox and kids play area weekly for 16 years. I can’t calculate the number of snakes I have killed, and when you add to that huge rattlesnakes on our hunting lease in south Texas and property we owned in the Texas hill country, the number increases.

Finding that copperhead yesterday brought all of my own fear for my children (now grown) and my hatred of snakes back.

When I go to Petco to buy dog food I see people picking out their little white mice to take home for their snake to eat alive I just wonder if they stand there and watch. Tell me Bill, do you stand there and watch as your snake swallows the little thing alive? What kind of response do you have to that?