Quote Originally Posted by RichsBallPythons View Post
NEVER EVER I dont care if its venomous or not kill a living animal cause its too close to your house. Ever hear of laws, all it takes is one person to call animal control that you killed a NATIVE species and now you have legal problems that could be avoided.


Capture the animal RELOCATE it to a safer place, never do they need to be killed, who are we to say what lives and what doesn't because it MIGHT cause a problem but 99% of the time their just PASSING though
In Oklahoma, if there is a wild animal harassing your animals, i.e coyote, bobcat, etc, you can shoot it. Just have to call the game warden. Additionally, animal control doesn't exist in the country.

I've killed venomous snakes before. Generally to protect pets. While I know to run the other way, dogs tend to be stupid and go "Thing in my yard! yapyapyapyapyap!". There's no one to call to remove the snakes and I'm certainly not brave enough to go and relocate it, either. If the snake is out in the pasture/woods/large ponds, I leave it alone. The house/small pond is a no go area for venomous snakes.