Why wouldn't you kill every venomous snake you see? Why not? I don't buy the rodent control bs

Because they simply are not a threat to me or mine. If they were I would do differently.

At any given time I have upwards of a half a million venomous insects on my property yet I allow my younguns and grand younguns free reign. It all about understands what's real and what's perceived.

Arkansas has a bunch. In summer when the temperature drops down. They like to lay on the pavement to warm up. Sounds like a firecracker pop when u run over one. I hate copperheads

Them cottonmouths have a special smell.

I only kill them where it’s “my job” to kill them. I’ll move them out of roadways and leave them be on any other properties I have access to. That’s what snakeboots are for.

I'm in your camp Warrior. Wife and I catch 2-300 snakes annually, weigh, measure, and release. Hobby research. Always coming up with range extensions and interesting tidbits for science. Rattlesnakes, in my opinion, doing more good than harm, so even they get caught, measured, and released. Fascinating critters. My hat off to you on the action with the cottonmouth, sir.

Jack

Water moccasin are in the state of MA . I know I got bite by one when I was small. Here in Iowa we have copperheads. I seen them and had one swim by me when I was walking up a river with my canoe when fishing.