Reptiles just can get a break.
We have "Swap People" and now we have "Rattlesnake Republic".
I also watched "Call of the Wild Man" This is about a guy that catches animals with his bare hands.
Watching him reminded me of a Youtube video I once saw. The video showed this idiot cleaning snapping turtles out of farm ponds.
Swinging them around by their tails(which injures the tail) and throwing them on shore. No regard for the animal at all. It's the same guy.
I must say I am biased with regards to this guy since I have Tank(Common Snapping Turtle) living with my family.
Animal Planet finds this guy, cleans up how he does some things and gives him his own show.
So much of what they do is staged. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see it.
All about ratings, advertisers and the bottomline MONEY.
At the price of these exploided and abused animals.
Shame on you Discovery Channel.
This is cruelty to animals plain and simple but wait it's reptiles, never mind.