Den site destroyed - all snakes killed

you should a) post there (your neighbors) address so we can all write them hate mail and b) post the address to the wildlife agency that you called so we can also send them hate mail.


Just my 2 cents.

SPJ I am from CT too, and this makes me sad to say i'm from CT. You should look up SNEHA which stands for Southern New England Herpetological Association, http://www.scinax.com/sneha/home.html there are three contacts there I know them all personally and if you email any of them let me know. They are all great people two are associated with universities. Let them know what exactly happened and they will possibly contact someone on your behalf, they are always willing to help. include me in the email and if you want me to help out in any way let me know. my email is michael-mosher@hotmail.com

wildlifewarrior

This might not help, but it's worth a shot. In the Spring I made up a flyer for my kids to pass around to the neighbors. It just stated that snakes are an important part of our ecosystem, some of the local non-venomous snakes in the area, and our phone number in case they wanted us to relocate the snakes for them.

There are a lot of ignorant fears out there, but sometimes people just need to be educated before the light comes on. However, sometimes people will never change...

EDIT by JLC -- I totally understand how frustrating it can be to hear these kinds of stories. But our TOS policy is very clear that we do not and can not tolerate talk about this kind of physical violence against another person.

Monty, i would have to say go easy on the violence, i think going over there and confronting the guy is fine, but herps have a bad enough stigma as it is, they don't need a reason to hate everyone trying to educate them.


I think the flyer is an awsome idea xdeus!

wildlifewarrior

the flyers are a good idea but they shoulda asked someone before they did it at all and i think thats a cause for violance because they made a really bad uneducated guess about the crueilty of animals

Whoa Mont... chill?

That is just awful!


It makes me really mad when people can be so cruel.:mad:

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Originally Posted by Monty

they made a really bad uneducated guess

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Now its time to educated, idealy before but worst case scenario after (As this is a worst case scenario)

Im not saying i am not ticked off about it and i would have to take a deep breath before confronting the person and "calmly" educating them.

Like i said sad day for a Herper from CT

wildlifewarrior

A good idea to really reach people might be a community newspaper. Where I live, almost everybody reads the paper, and if you wrote a letter to the editor or called the editor about it, your thoughts would be in something that people trust and read every week.
Write about what you saw, and what threat these snakes pose (which is none... :sigh: poor snakes), and what can be done to avoid interaction... or musking. And how to identify them. Then outline how important garters are to the environment..
I'm so sad this happened. I used to play with garters as a kid and they're just stinky little sweethearts :(