Quote Originally Posted by AZ_Equine View Post
My grand kids have been taught what to do if they see a snake but if a rattler took up residence in their back yard I guarantee dad isn't going to let it stay. Kids like to play and allowing a venomous snake stick around would be asking for trouble because eventually it would strike when someone wasn't paying attention. Kids have a short attention span and if retrieving a ball under a large toy they will be caught up in their game and forget to look. Snakes move around and they would not always know where it is hiding. Besides they can't teach the pets to keep away from all the places in the yard where a snake could hide.
That's how my mom was when I was a kid, sorta. We lived by a creek and were always getting cottonmouths. It was bad enough that any dark colored snake got killed because there were so many.