Did i do the right thing?

[Dracorex5]

You can call exterminators here to deal with garters through glue traps and lethal method, yet you cant keep them. The "vermin" stat is just basically what exterminators will kill.... Though i dont understand why people would want them dead.....

[ConcinusMan]

Though i dont understand why people would want them dead.....

Irrational fear, loathing, ignorance, just to name a few reasons.

I hear what you're saying about the "vermin" status, although they don't call it that here. It's perfectly legal to kill them on private property here too, but when it comes to keeping them, native garters are off limits because they are "wildlife" (although they don't enforce it. They completely ignore it when it comes to garter snakes)

[Dracorex5]

None of which i understand. I have misanthropic views on irrationality.... But thats just me being a little overly prideful. Maybe someday people will understand how beautiful the world and everything in it truly is

[ConcinusMan]

I have misanthropic views on irrationality...

I hear you. Everything about our way of life in an industrialized society that depends on petroleum consumption and deforestation, is irrational and unsustainable, but we ignore that fact and do it anyway.

But don't even get me started on that. Way off topic.

[i_heart_sneakie_snakes]

You can call exterminators here to deal with garters through glue traps

I had no idea they used that type of method. How cruel and horrible

[Dracorex5]

Glue traps are the worst.... I believe there was a video about them on this forum once. Exterminators can install them, and when a snake gets trapped on one you throw the trap in the garbage with the snake attached. Some companies insist that some are "humane", but even in trying to remove the snake from the glue you can rip off scales and skin causing likely fatal damage.... Its horrible....

[Greg'sGarters]

Damn you spam inbox!!! I've lost important messages to the spam box.

[EasternGirl]

Look...it sounds to me like a very complicated situation, to say the least. And it also sounds like you were trying to do the best you could with the info you had at the time...and that you made attempts to find the snakes a home...so let yourself off the hook...I know you will still question yourself...which means you have a good heart...but you did try to do the right thing, so I don't think you did anything wrong here. Trying to ship the babies to Canada would have been very complicated if not impossible. For future reference...or for anyone else who has snakes who need a home...just start a thread on here and discuss what is going on with us...I would start a thread in the general forum to discuss the situation rather than putting up an adoption ad...and go from there. But I do think that you tried to do the right thing and that it was a difficult situation....