How To Kill a Garter Snake

[EasternGirl]

Comment left and email sent. Did anyone let the garter snake fb page know about this? People just really disgust me sometimes.

[MCwyo]

This "article" is posted on the garter snake fb page.

When I sent my email to eHow, aside from expressing how disgusted I am with the article for encouraging people to kill harmless animals, I also mentioned the fact that there are garter snake species in the US that are protected at a state or federal level & that this article could be taken as promoting the poaching and destruction of endangered wildlife.

[Lovok]

THANK YOU ALL for your help!! I first saw the article on the Garter Facebook page, and the first place I thought of to enlist people was here.
I e-mailed 2 different organizations so far- Ohio's Department of Natural Resources (Ohio has at least 3 different garter species and 2 Ribbon), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Laura Roth from Ohio has replied already, saying she has forwarded the article and my e-mail to their wildlife management team, and will in turn forward to me whatever response she gets. I'm still waiting to hear from the USFWS, but I'll keep you all posted.

I see my other post was moved to this area, so my apologies for the double post and putting one where it apparently shouldn't have been. As long as the word it getting out and we can DO something,...that's the important thing.

Thank you all again, and let's keep this moving until Ehow takes responsibility for this!

[Thamnophis]

I think the disgusting article has been removed. I cannot find it anymore.
If this is the case... GOOD NEWS!

[Stefan-A]

Excellent.

[RedSidedSPR]

Doesn't come up in google anymore.

[EasternGirl]

I just got an email back from ehow saying that they removed the link. Good job everyone!


Vinodh, Oct 31 08:07 (PDT): Hi,
We've taken the link down. Thanks for your patience and understanding.
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Marnie Scott, Oct 30 07:08 (PDT): The fact that you allow an article that promotes animal cruelty is disgusting. I will be notifying everyone I know about this article...especially animal cruelty groups. I hope that people stop using ehow.

Marnie Scott

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[-MARWOLAETH-]

A good result. But I'm still disappointed with eHow for allowing such sickening scribblings to be published.I hope they learn from this.

[ConcinusMan]

A good result. But I'm still disappointed with eHow for allowing such sickening scribblings to be published.I hope they learn from this.

I seriously doubt they have the manpower to screen every single article that gets published on their site just as youtube sometimes allows copyrighted material to be published by people other than the content owner. But they do take immediate action when there is a complaint by the legitimate owner. Just the fact that eHow removed it so promptly after receiving complaints does them credit. Don't be so hard on them.

Nice job everyone.