I don't kill them anymore. I have never seen a rattler in my neighborhood, but am aware that they are around.
As a kid, my Mom got bit on the foot by a copperhead. It made her pretty sick at the time. Bothered her for years but no permanent damage. I "harvested" 30 to 40 of them after that 'til I was 20 something. The last one I saw was 1991.
Sunshine has a six or seven foot red tailed boa that lives in our house. We have no mice...
