Well i live in new york... So the only snake i've ever seen out here was a copperhead when i went upstate to my cousins house... But i really want to move to florida.. The only thing that makes me not want to move there is the venomous snakes... I have dogs, and i wouldnt want to risk them being out in the yard and getting bit.. The same way you wouldnt want to risk your children getting bit.. My dogs are like my children lol... So i would try to get something to maybe Repel the snakes away.. And if the snakes werent close to my dogs, or kids, i would catch it and move it somewhere else... But if it was too close to kids (family..), or my dogs, and i didnt have time to get a stick, pin it and bag it, you better believe im gonna put the snake out, b4 its ever touching kids or my dogs... If 1 of 2 things had to die.. its going to be the snake, rather than my dogs or kids & family, etc... But I hope I'll never have to do that... Killing a snake is really a desperate last resort.... I hate to kill anything thats alive... Except rats.... And cows.... Maybe even turkeys... And i guess chickens too... And.. Yeah ill stop now..