I just got my first ball python and I'm finding these animals amazing. Now I want to go out and start catching the ratsnakes and copperheads and gartersnakes we have here around the Ohio River Valley! Am I going crazy? I know the copperhead may be stretching it, but I've read ratsnakes can be captured and kept. And wow, the copperheads are really beautiful. What can I do to find snakes besides just keeping an eye out? I've been running around in the woods my whole life and have only run across one copperhead and a blacksnake or two. I'd like to at least see some.