I like snakes.
When I was a kid, I caught and kept as many as I could. Even thought, for a minute, before I noticed how awesome girls are, that I might want to be a herpetologist. Note to the kids out there - herpetologists don't EVER get laid...
The last rattlesnake I had a hand in killing, was killed by my buddy pinning its head down with an umbrella and me sawing it's head off with a handy shale rock. We didn't want to cause a ruckus as we were walking in to make a coyote stand. That was, ehh, 20-ish years ago? Probably closer to 25 years ago...
Only a couple years ago, sat down to make a stand, in September, and noticed we were set up on the entrance to a rattlesnake den. Very uncomfortable stand, lol! We didn't kill any of them. But I think my buddy certainly would have, if the noise and commotion wouldn't have affected the outcome of our stand, lol! We didn't call anything on that stand anyway...
But, to each his own. I'm not a crusader on the issue. You feel better killing every rattlesnake you see, keep on keeping on. I don't judge.
I like to play with and photograph them, then let them go, myself. Even though, liking snakes NEVER got me laid.
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- DAA