I live in town. But I have a fish pond in my backyard and big trees and shrubbery. I've never had a poisonous snake, but surprisingly have a good many Gray Rat Snakes and water snakes in the pond, mostly Banded or Red-bellied Water Snakes.
I've raised five children in this home, three of them boys. Once
the boys killed a Banded Water Snake with a bow and arrow. I took that opportunity to explain to them the value of the snakes we have and my own personal ethic about snake killing. Teaching the boys to turkey hunt we've run across lots of Moccasins and Rattlers. We walk around them unless they get scary; then they're dead.
While I appreciate the non-poisonous snakes I will not have the bad guys around my home. However, like I said I live in town and have never seen any of the poison varieties in the yard...Geo
