Viewing post #2068797 by Gina1960

ardesia said:I am pretty sure you folks know your snakes and I like to think I do too. But, I get such a kick out of the posts on NextDoor, every time someone posts a photo of a snake and asks for an ID half the respondents say it is a rattler or a cottonmouth and to kill it.
I have never seen one of those little Crowned snakes and I wonder if I just never realized there were snakes that tiny other than he worm snake - which I have seen.

This does always disturb me that people are so fast to kill snakes. There is a banded water snake that everyone misidentifies as a cottonmouth. SO many are needlessly killed. We don't kill and of the snakes we find on our property. We have had big (I am talking BIG) rattlesnakes relocated before by a herpetologist. Because we have dogs, and don;t want them at risk. But they don;t kill them just take them somewhere else and turn them loose.