How To Kill a Garter Snake

[Lovok]

Friends, what I'm about to tell you will blow your minds. There's a "Helpful hints" page called Ehow, that published this article:

How to Kill a Garter Snake | eHow.com

I urge members here to respond to this web article. I've posted comments there via Facebook, and all but one has been deleted (by Ehow itself). I sent a letter to:

support@ehow.zendesk.com

and so far have yet to get a reply, and I'm not optimistic.

We all care about snakes in general, and love our garters, but they need our help in a BIG way to combat this level of ignorance. Write to them, report the site to animal and/or reptile protection agencies, and share this information so that Ehow either removes the article or publishes a retraction.

This type of cruelty and baseless fear needs our opposition.

[MCwyo]

I saw this on facebook and replied to it. What an ignorant idiot. It pretty much says- This snake is completely harmless and beneficial, but let me show you how to cut off it's head because it's soooo scary. It needs to be removed.

[Lovok]

Which is why I hope people here flood the site with e-mails until they can no longer ignore what they're promoting.

[Mandi0284]

Wow what a jerk. A guy at my work kills garters for no reason. I told him to capture them and I will take them and release them elsewhere.... or keep them if they are super cute

People are so intolerant of other species and quick to destroy something they do not understand or fear. If you dont want snakes in your yard....move somewhere else.

[-MARWOLAETH-]

The person who wrote this is an absolute egit!The way of "getting rid of an animal is to make the habitat less suitable for it.Cutting their heads off isn't going to make a difference as more snakes are just going to move in.As the page say, a simple clearing up of the garden and a cut of the grass but before you start lopping off heads would have done the trick.The snake would just move to a more suitable area on their own.

[guidofatherof5]

Comment left and email sent.

[Lovok]

Contact the site and let the know this! The more of us that respond, the more garters we can save. Even if it's only one that's saved, a difference will have been made.

[Lovok]

THANK YOU, Steve!!!

[ProXimuS]

Yea lets encourage people to kill small harmless animals.... It even says in the introduction they are harmless! I tried to make a comment but I don't have Facebook.

[Lovok]

Proximus- no worries, but if you got to the article, use support@ehow.zendesk.com to send an e-mail. Don't be daunted, because this is important. Who knows how many have read the article and believe what it's saying.