12/31/2023 0 Comments Texas law texas indigo snakeHaven't seen anything down here in Pine Tree country except pit vipers, coachwhips and a couple "Red on Yellow" coral snakes. Or you dog finds one in your front yard, gets bit, and dies. Relocating them from around one's home is fine until you open your garage or back door and step on one. I do have my limits, fire ants, fleas, scorpions, mosquitos, hornets or any kind of flying insect that bites or stings will get taken out if possible. I suppose growing older has mellowed me out towards widlife, I would rather watch and see how they operate rather than inflicting harm. The dead snake pictured earlier in this thread looks like a Checkered King and is harmless it would have quickly moved away if given the chance. I've dealt with Rattlesnakes in South and West Tx and killed several until I discovered they would retreat out of site quickly if you have a long enough stick to prod them with and allow them to escape. I've caught Copperheads in my yard mainly in the hedges and relocate them to the nearby creek, same with the non venomous. They simply operate on instinct and are interested in only basic functions to survive, find food and mate. Snakes poisonious or not have no interest in Humans unless provoked, or surprised. If one gets in the chicken coop and/or eats eggs or scares my wife I kill it. If a rat snake is in the yard and my wife has not seen it I shoo it to the woods to eat rats. If the copperhead is in the yard he dies, they scare my wife and bite my dog. ALL non-venomous snakes get a pass regardless where they are found. Venomous snakes around the house or close outbuildings are not tolerated. Having 2 small dogs, enjoying our back yard at night and small kids next door well the poisonous ones do not get a pass. The one snake may very well be one that hung around the back before we got the chickens a short time a couple years ago, no harm no foul. ![]() The king snakes we have are welcome as are the garden and black racers. The copperheads do not get a pass close to the house though might get one from me in the woods. We like eggs not feeding snakes our food and scaring our chickens. If it were not for the chickens and eggs one of those snakes would have been sage in our back yard. where my wife and my family walk around (not to mention my dog) then I am taking them out - pretty brazen of you to tell people they are "uneducated". On the other hand if they are at my door step, on my back deck, in my barn, etc. If I see one in the wild (which I have many many times) I let them go. ![]() Snake haters are typically uneducated on them.
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