Rattlesnake

[santaman2000]

Well, in the UK at least, there's no reason at all to harm snakes, or slowworms, or lizards etc. I lived next to a realy horrible person who would kill slowworms whenever she saw them because she was frightened of them

Most people I know kill snakes on sight. I try to wait until I know it’s not a Kingsnake. Rattlesnake roundups are usually community events.

 

[C_Claycomb]

I don't know about the rattle snakes in Florida, but some years ago there was a program on BBC Natural World following Kenney Salwey last River Rat on the Mississippi, where he talked about having once hunted rattle snakes for the bounty. At time of filming he described how there were ever fewer snakes and he came to realise they were not inexhaustible, and now leaves them alone.

It was a good program.

 

[santaman2000]

Yeah, they’re not inexhaustible but there’s still no shortage. Finding dens like this is still a acommon occuqr no throughoutmthe South https://images.app.goo.gl/mPv22wp9Rz5jjMt98

In any case, the ultimate goal is extermination.