well, personally if it was up to me, all snakes could stay but the rattlers and moccasins....copperheads......they are just to dang agressive.....i know they do good to the world, but i just don' t like em...i used to kill em(marinate in bbq sauce for 24 hours and fry em up,it' s the best), but now i go out of my way not too....i' ll even scoot them off the roads...i hunt barefooted most of the time, i go through some nasty stuff, alot of the men don' t even do it, i just get the mind set of go girl, just go and i pray all the way but this time of year my feet are covered, most of the time......there' s this one rattler where i work, it has to be 8 foot long......i' d be dead instintly......the pygmy' s scare me more than the big ones do, they are just evil..............and you can' t hear em like the big guys, til you are right there....me and my buddy were scouting last year , i walked right over it, he went to take a step and it almost got him........put the fear of God right in me....