Snake Killing Snare for sale online!!!

[Herpkingdom]

This came in an email from www.CNAH.com

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NEWS RELEASE
The Center for North American Herpetology
Lawrence, Kansas
http://www.cnah.org
6 March 2005

Snake Snare Snaps Spines
Device Designed to Decapitate

As if the general public’s view on snakes were not already bad enough, a
company called SnakeSnare, LLC, in Iowa has taken it to the next level.
"SnakeSnare" is a device designed to intentionally decapitate wild snakes.

"SnakeSnare" is marketed on the internet and promotes use in areas like
neighborhoods and golf courses, "Where gunfire is impractical or illegal." The
website mentions that the product "can" capture a snake for relocation, but is
actually designed for "instant decapitation."

The marketing of the product seems to promote extermination of wild snakes,
and the site actually quotes the old adage "a good snake is a dead snake."

If you would like to voice your concerns about this product and it’s marketing
objectives, please see their website at

www.snakesnare.com

and voice your concerns.

Submitted by
Dean Alessandrini
Vice-President
The Greater Cincinnati Herpetological Society

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So after a little research, I came up with the follwing information:

ok, this is a call to all members. Go to all of the sites you belong to and post this article. Make sure people know to go to the site and send emails to the company voicing their concerns about this product.

Please do not use threats or insults. Be calm, collected, and cool.

This is the site used to register the domain:

http://www.enom.com/

This is the host of the domain:

http://www.zenutech.com/

This is the registars data:

Registrant Contact:
SnakeSnare, LLC
John Keyloun (Whois Privacy and Spam Prevention by Whois Source)
+1.6027283336
Fax: +1.6027283336
1201 S. McClintock Dr. #114
Tempe, AZ 85281
US

Pass this info along to everyone you know in the herp community. Let's start sending emails and snail mail to this guy who sells a such a inhumane item.


Here is a list of all of the reptile sites I have posted this thread on:

http://herpkingdom.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=7952#7952

[HumphreyBoagart]

That is very sickening. I emailed them my two cents, but by the time I was done it was about 4 cents. Everyone needs to do this too.

[SaveTheSnakes1]

Snake Snare is a company in the US that has designed at device that kills snakes.

Here are some quotes from their site

Use SnakeSnare® to kill a dangerous snake instead of using a firearm, especially if gunfire is illegal;


Use SnakeSnare® to harvest valuable snake skins without damaging the snake by shotgun blast;


Use SnakeSnare® to instantly decapitate a snake. The skin and meat are more saleable with instant decapitation;


Use SnakeSnare® to kill dangerous rattlesnakes and vipers and other snake breeds;


Use SnakeSnare® to remove snakes from golf courses, public areas, camping sites, mobile home parks, trailer parks.




Im asking you all to PLEASE email them and tell them about your feelings! Thanks so much from me and on behalf of ''Save The Snakes 101''.

info@snakesnare.com

[the_frog_man]

OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




thanx froggy

[SaIiLdVaEnR]

I dont think emailing them will have much of an impact if they are actually getting sales from them and it is legal.

[HumphreyBoagart]

Aiden:
I think not emailing them will have even less of an impact.

[Reticsrule]

whoever invented that thing and anyone who uses it are seriously messed up. why cant snakes just be treated like any other animal.

i say we go and decapatate the people that use it and see how they like having their head chopped off.

[jason23]

but they sure do gots some good snake recipes on there, and everybody knows that snakes is some good eatin!

[snakehunter]

yeah its one thing if you kill to eat and eat what you kill, its another if you kill just because you dont like something, If life where like that alot of people would not be here........maybe.......you!?!? haha

[jason23]

lol, maby. but seriously, due to the forum rules im unable to express my true feelings on this produt and the company selling it

[Rimshot]

now that my dear friends is what you call, IGNORANCE !!!

[wizbit13]

But when a snakes head is cut off the snake does not die instantly. I read somewhere that the head of the snake lives for quite some time after. So this to me does not seem like a humane way of killing the animal so should be made illegal on those grounds alone. This item really sucks.

Adam

[BoAddict]

i dont know why your all upset. do we not kill rats for our snakes? do we not set poison and traps for rodents around businesses? do we use the rodents that we kill around the businessesor homes? there are plenty of rodent lovers out there too.

look i dont agree with it but we all have a right to design and try to market our product.

emailing them wont do anything since hey its how they make money, just say you have invested some $$$$ in some snakes and are breeding them and a group emails you and asks you to stop breeding them are you gonna listen? i dont think so

Mike

[SaIiLdVaEnR]

Exactly BoAddict. I am surprised I haven't seen as many veteren members on here who perhaps have more experience or logic when it comes to something like this... most of them are new members

why cant snakes just be treated like any other animal.

Do you mean like cow, or chicken, perhaps pork, turkey, and even sheep?

We kill animals on a daily basis to quench our appetite for them. People eat snakes as well, I hope people know that.

It has come to my attention that we should no longer have mouse traps... why can't mice just be treated like any other animal.

Geesh, Emailing will do absolutely nothing because this kind of thing happens daily in many different aspects of life. To go with one and to deny the other is you being a hypocrite.

[Herpkingdom]

It is exactly that type of attitude that allows people to sell this type of product.



There are numerous other ways to rid your home & workplace and the areas around them from snakes. There are even companies that offer the service of removing snakes and other wildlife from your home and the surrounding areas, not to mention the local animal control agency.

This product has one use, to kill snakes. Period. He even has compared a similar product, one designed to capture/restrain snakes, stating that his is cheaper, thus implying that the other is also a snake killing implement which it is noI

How about this, an alternative use for this product..... I know of several areas where there are many feral cats....