Only way I would kill one is if it was an immediate threat to me or a companion... Otherwise, I see no point in killing a snake? We don't really have many poisonous snakes around here in the first place so it is a moot point.

I catchsnakes in the garage and sunning on the driveway in the summer and let them go out in the yard since the womandon't likethem though....

Can someone explain the whole fear associated with snakes? I really don't get it....
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