Do you kill snakes you find in your yard?

[SerpentesCiconii]

How are we supposed to convince the general public that snakes have their place when some of "our own kind" don't even respect them? Quite hypocritical to say the least.

[TheOtherLeadingBrand]

No way!!! NEVER.

[Neal]

I voted no simply because even if the snake is dangerous, it's not intentionally trying to cause you any harm, plus I don't believe in killing any snakes, no matter how dangerous or big they are. What I would do, and have done in the past dealing with copper heads & cotton mouths, I catch them, walk down the road, and set them free. If you have kids, I still wouldn't justify killing a snake, but that's my opinion. I would just teach them about snakes, and the danger. Although I rarely see anything venomous anymore due to a 4-5" kingsnake roaming around, and the help of me relocating them.

[DM1975]

I do not kill snakes I find in my yard,venomous or not. They are doing nothing wrong. My kids are taught to not touch snakes they find outside and by god it works.

[DM1975]

I voted yes, however, venomous snakes only. We have livestock, and thus, tall grass around the house (pens up around the hosue is for the silk animals), so, walking the yard to make sure that there's nothing nasty is pointless, as is putting up special anti-snake fencing on the fences (goat horns get tangled in almost anything small).

Last year, we have a purebred baby goat that we were talking about registering. One evening, he came home with the rest of the herd. Back end wasn't working right. We looked him over and discovered where he had been struck on the leg by a snake. He never really recovered. A possible $500+ gone...That, and I've been chased by cottonmouths a few too many times :|

On the otherhand, I havne't seen a venomous snake in a couple years now.

That is a very understandable reason.

[DutchHerp]

Absolutely. I don't use the word "chase" per say, but I have been charged by a couple PO-ed cottonmouths. They don't just stand in S-position waiting for you to get close when they feel threatened, they come at you a couple feet at a time, position, stare you down, charge a few feet again.

Granted the couple of times it happened, I gave the snake more than enough reason to be pissed off (stepped on a log that the snake was hiding under, almost stepped on a near-invisible mud-covered snake itself more than once)

I don't know if they would have actually tagged me, but they put on a very aggressive show to try to scare you off. They are the ONLY snake I know to actually move TOWARDS a human when they feel threatened. Most snakes pose, hiss, and try to run away.

Then we do indeed have different definitions of the word "chase"

Later, Matt

[guambomb832]

Well if it is venomous I don't want to mess with it so I let my dad do whatever he wants with it, which is usually killing it, but then if it isn't, I will just put it back where it was or relocate it. I would deal with the venomous, but then that is really dangerous so yeah.

[Raptor]

How are we supposed to convince the general public that snakes have their place when some of "our own kind" don't even respect them? Quite hypocritical to say the least.

Sorry if I want to protect my animals..Which themselves can be worth as much as some of the ball python morphs.

Think of it this way. You have numerous bps that are worth lots of money. Would you sit around, twiddle your thumbs and let something injure or possibly kill them?

No!

I'm protecting an investment. Unlike you and me, goats aren't going to go 'hey, that snake is venomous. I should stay away.' They're going to walk right up to it and stick their nose in its face. Goats are exceptionally curious animals, which gets them in a load of trouble. A snakebite from a venomous snake will result in a dead goat, be it right there, or later down the road.

Unlike those who talk about moving the snakes, I don't have the balls or expertise to be handling a venomous snake. Calling someone to remove it? Pft. They'll just say kill it.

But like I said, I haven't seen a venomous snake in a few years.

[Simpson Balls]

NEVER IN LIFE!

Daniel

[Denial]

My vote is no. Anytime I see a snake in my yard or on the road I stop and either take it off the road or if its in my yard I take it way down back to the woods and release it out there. My children know not to mess with outside snakes as they call them. venomous or non. Both venomous and non venomous snakes do a great job maintaining the ecosystem where I live and I would much rather have them slithering round my yard then a ton of rats and mice lol. Also in my experience venomous snakes around here actually seem alot less cranky then our non venomous. I have had some really pissed off kingsnakes take a whach at me and Ive had some others muck all over me. But the copperheads and cottonmouths usually just let me hook them and move them