fairly horrific.

[d_virginiana]

That's horrible! And completely unnecessary... Unless you're located on top of a hibernaculum or have a lot of venomous snakes around, snakes are the best and safest pest control out there! We're in a really agricultural area, and even people who HATE snakes refuse to kill rat and corn snakes for that reason.

It ticks me off that they're selling it as 'humane' too, because there are probably a lot of people who know nothing about snakes and think that leaving the container in a field somewhere and pouring vegetable oil on it doesn't harm the snake.

Way to go writing them a letter!

[kerensa]

That's horrible! And completely unnecessary... Unless you're located on top of a hibernaculum or have a lot of venomous snakes around, snakes are the best and safest pest control out there!

Way to go writing them a letter!

yup on both counts. Rattlers are what my father used to get called to collect most often. he used to milk them for the venom. Had quite a number of lovely specimens. (had to have a permit in California to keep them) But even with rattlers, they are not out there hunting people- they're happy to head the other way when a person is coming. (I know that from experience) If you're on top of a hibernaculum trapping a few isn't gonna help... time to either call them family or move. Again the glue trap is a bad idea.