Disgusted with Animal Planet

[guidofatherof5]

AP response to my email. Form letter response.

Dear Viewer:

Thank you for contacting Animal Planet. We appreciate your correspondence
and for taking the time to share your thoughts and concerns with us about
Rattlesnake Republic.

In an effort to ensure the highest quality programming, comments such as
these are taken very seriously. Each and every comment is forwarded on to
our programming executives for review and consideration. Maintaining the
integrity of all of our networks is our primary goal. It is these types of
comments that contribute to creating change and improving our programming.

Again, thank you for contacting Animal Planet.

Sincerely,

Viewer Relations
Animal Planet

[katach]

Write them an e-mail every day, until you get a real response. I just posted under your comment on the facebook page. I will not watch AP anymore. I sent them an email too.

Here it is:

I know you will just send be back a generic form letter, but I need to tell your company something! This show is incredibly offensive. It is horrible that a network that supposedly is for animal rights and education airs this trash. These people are harming the ecosystem, destroying an entire population of snakes. You wouldn't even think of airing a program that promoted the killing for money of puppies would you?! The life of a reptile doesn't even cross your mind. Well it does mine and many others like me. I will not watch your network and not buy your products. I will write your sponsors and let them know I will not buy their products either. Your slogan "Surprisingly Human" HA!! I find this show to be of the utmost inhumane programming. You should be ashamed of yourselves for even thinking about airing such garbage and for promoting the decimation of a reptile that strikes only to defend itself. I hope you actually read this feedback and understand what a slippery slope you are on with programming like this.

[guidofatherof5]

It may require watching this trash again but we need a list of the sponser that advertise during this show.
Lets post them here and start making some calls and sending emails.

[chris-uk]

Do the opposite to what we normally do with TV on commercial channels - most programmes we watch we Sky+ (translation for transatlantic readers: record from satellite on a TeVo-type box) and fast forward the ads. You could record and fast forward the programme and watch the ads so that you don't have to subject yourself to the garbage.

[guidofatherof5]

Good idea. Hope we can get some of the sponsers soon.

[guidofatherof5]

I did some looking today and located this info.
Since Sweetwater,TX seems to be the center of this roundup tragedy, embarrassment, ect. I thought I would post some contact info. for their Chamber of Commerce
Contact Us - Sweetwater Chamber of Commerce
Contact # 800-658-6757
Address: P.O. Box 1148
Sweetwater, TX 79556
I called and left a message for the director to call me back.
My message was polite and professional. Hoping this will at least get me a call back.

Looks like the 2011 Roundup was March 11,12,13.
I didn't see a 2012 Roundup on their calendar of events, yet.

[guidofatherof5]

Looks like the AP Facebook page Rattlesnake Republic has been removed.
I'm new to facebook so could someone verify this info.

[katach]

Looks that way. I tried searching for it and looking at the post I put on there. It's just gone. Maybe they are getting the message.

[guidofatherof5]

Looks that way. I tried searching for it and looking at the post I put on there. It's just gone. Maybe they are getting the message.

Or just don't want to see anymore and not give people the option to comment.

[RedSidedSPR]

Been there done that. If a company like this is getting critisized in public, they remove your comment etc. They never listen either. If they cared they wouldn't be airing this.