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WOW!!! so Ursula if humans overpopulated earth would you suggest the same?? There is plenty of things humans can do to help without having to harm any living animal!! Do your own research or if it bothers you that much find a center sanctuary and donate!! that way pythons and many other snakes can enjoy the life they deserve its not their fault that greedy humans want to profit and sell snakes and exotic animals that buyers will later on abandon.

The UK’s Daily Mail newspaper printed an eye-opening exposé on the exotic skin industry that included this description of the killing of a snake at a Javanese snake slaughterhouse: “The snake is stunned with a blow to the head from the back of a machete and a hose pipe expertly forced between its jaws. Next, the water is turned on and the reptile fills up, swelling like a balloon. It will be left like that for ten minutes or so, a leather cord tied around its neck to prevent the liquid escaping. Then its head is impaled on a meat hook, a couple of quick incisions follow, and the now-loosened skin peeled off with a series of brutal tugs - much like a rubber glove from a hand. …[T]he python's peeled body is simply tossed on a pile of similarly stripped snakes. After a day or two of unimaginable agony it will die from the effects of shock or dehydration.” The article includes a quote from biologist and reptile expert Clifford Warwick, who explains exactly why killing snakes for their skins is so cruel: “The snakes are often nailed to a tree with a large nail. It doesn't kill them because they have a small brain and there's little chance of actually hitting it….It can take hours or days for them to die from dehydration or shock - it is a really dreadful thing for them to do….In other places they will decapitate the animal before skinning. The problem is that decapitating the snake doesn't kill it instantly. With a snake the head will be alive for an hour or two hours - completely conscious, completely sensitive to pain, fear and everything else. That comes about because their metabolic rate is much lower and slower than ours and accustomed to low blood pressure. The nervous system is quite resistant to lack of oxygen and continues to survive without its body for some time.” Read the entire article here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-482849/Pythons-skinned-left-die-The-shocking-reality-fashions-new-obsession.html#ixzz1qzU8Cpgq.

there is plenty of evidence for those asking about proof!! just look for yourself peta has some videos of the cruel massacre...is just sad and evil I have seen stank people at the mall trying to sell super cheap fur and other exotics skins and dont even have a retail store or anything not that that should matter I am just saying how unfair this is....you can easily get faux leather faux fur faux anything!!!they should be put in jail or something!!

Please don't do this, PETA! My wife has a phobia of snakes, she is extremely scared of anything slithering, even toys! We live in Boston and we are not rich, meaning that we often have to take the subway as our means of transportation. The moment you put those rubber snakes in the train is the moment my wife will never want to ride the train again! We do not have enough money to take taxi all the time, so please don't do this!

Huh?? I would imagine that all snakes are beheaded before being skinned. Proof please..