Do you kill snakes you find in your yard?

[drifter0069]

no, i dont kill snakes just cause they are in my back yard. i don't want to be in the woods one day and see a copperhead with a shovel gettin paybacks.......

[purplemuffin]

I said no.. I live in an area where the only snakes you really see are garter snakes or other small brown ones that aren't venomous... And if there were to be a venomous snake in my yard, I know that the local animal control has people who relocate them to safer areas, which would be a nicer option.

Of course I know to do what is needed if in the future there was literally a dangerous situation where my (future) child was confronted by a venomous snake and there was not the option to move it! Bleh! Hopefully I am never put in that situation!


I am just glad I am informed and know of all the snakes in my area! Unlike my parents... When I was younger we found a snake that had fallen into our pool, because it was in water they assumed it was a water moccasin. I remember it clearly... It was the prettiest snake I had ever seen! What they killed was a grey banded kingsnake! And I know of dozens of garters my family has killed.. This is why people need to be more aware of snake species and what is and is not dangerous! Yuck!

[Austin236]

I will not kill any snake in my yard, i get cotton mouths, all i do is catch em and relocate them to the everglades. But if there something very interesting like the wild leucistic rat snake i caught then i keep em and treat for internal parasites, ticks and mites.

[dembonez]

you guys have to understand that you guys LIKE and KNOW about snakes so to the average person they can't tell if its a corn snake or a python they just think all snakes have poison so they will most likely kill

[Bellabob]

No way. Ilive in a house subdivison but theres a big feild right acroos the street from me that has snakes in it (I've never seen any but I have found skin.) If I found one in my yard that wasn't venomous I would handle it. not what kind of snake it is, nand just let it go. Howver, if I found a venomous snake, say a Rattlesnake, copper head, coral snake, etc I would grab the snake hook or tongs and put it in a secure container. Then I would bring it deep into the feild by my house (because it would have had to come from there) and let it go.

[Redneck_Crow]

I don't kill them. I've never had venomous snakes in my current yard, but I have relocated copperheads that liked to visit my stepfather's yard when he was living 20 feet from a creek in West Virginia. We used to take a trash can, pole them into it, drive them a mile or so down the road, and dump them out. He was a cool guy. He didn't believe in killing anything that wasn't harming him unless he was going to eat it.

I have a resident gartersnake in the front yard. On the occasions that I've got something available, I've fed her. And here's something that y'all might not have known--wild snakes will eat f/t rodents. Or at least one of them will.

I haven't seen Sadie yet this year, and she may have succumbed to old age or lawnmowers. I'm keeping an eye out for her though. I've still got a couple of smallish mice tucked away in the freezer for her just in case she shows up.

[iHAZreptiles]

I have yet for that to happen to me, though there is a woodsy area behind my house that I have seen a few snakes in, but none were venomous as far as I know.

[kevinb]

I never kill snakes. Ever. Hence why I have 2 of my three now because I saved them from my mom attempting to mow them over with the lawnmower. I get to go do some snake hunting today. There a supposidly eastern diamond backs there...at the place I'm going but I haven't seen one. I'm not quite sure what ill do if I find one.....let it be seems the smartest option.

1.0 High Yellow Jungle "Bruce"
0.1 Mack Snow Tremper Albino "Ava"
0.1 Rainwater Patternless "Pita"
1.0 Albino Checkered Garter "Herbert II"
0.0.1 Common Garter "Lucile"
0.0.1 Eastern Milksnake "Tiffany"

[AK907]

Absolutely not! My wife and I love finding snakes in our yard. We welcome all walks of life besides bees, ants and our neighbors cats. If we found a venomous snake in the yard we would do the right thing and relocate it to a better area.

[R_lopez]

Yup we have a ranch in Texas we always see rattlesnakes and put a .44 to there head but if it was harmless I'd just leave it alone