Quote Originally Posted by snakegrl View Post
My thought is that if we are going to kill the snakes........Then people outta just put a bubble around themselves and then they won't have to worry about rabies, an airborne disease and you know what better stop driving your car and motorcycles cause they kill more people a year than snakes and oh; Then we have cigerettes and dip that cause cancer......so there you go? Are snakes really that dangerous??
..Rabies isn't airborne. It's transmitted via saliva (there needs to be an injury for the saliva to get into, however).

Quote Originally Posted by djansen
Alot of people are bit trying to kill snakes, jus sayin. And would calling animal control be that big of a deal? its their job to find it. Im not against killing it out of safety but there are other ways in this case. he could have called animal control and went and alerted the neighbors and let them know animal control was on the way.
And if there's no animal control/local person to remove the snake?