bullet20, you are right, snakebites are rather painless, they do draw blood, and some do hurt i.e. diamondback watersnakes and plainbellied water snakes(both of which will bite and chew) anything else wil just be like getting stuck with a needle. when i catch rat snakes, most of the time i get bit, but its a small price to pay if my neighbor was going to kill it otherwise.

and fishslayer, i understand what you are saying about moccasins and how aggressive they are, if you corner them or threaten their general area, they can become very offensive, meaning they will strike repeatedly, stand their ground, and sometimes come after you, when they get this defensive, there is sometimes nothing to do but kill them. but if i were to see it before it saw me, i would steer clear, because they are one of the few snakes that are extremely aggressive when confronted

I've also been bitten by a ratsnake. I initiated the contact to catch and relocate the snake. It was relatively painless. My advice to all is to wash the bite thoroughly in order to decrease the chance of infection.

Studies have indicated that snakes will follow the urine trail of small rodents in order to find food. The mouse pees. Pee gets in the belly fur. So the mouse leaves a pee trail. Snake follows the trail.

The point is that in a barn environment, keep the rodent traps set or the poison out and alot of the snake problem will go away.

Some of yall should watch some animal planet. Quit being a bunch of girls and running with your hands up in the air hollern "SNAKE" or even worse killn them. Hell if thats the case you might as well start killing everything else you see while outdoors

I think i have only killed one snake in my whole life and i have been fishing ponds and lakes for over 20 years now.

The only snake that i think i ever killed fell out of a tree and landed on me when i was fishing on my boat on lake Austin after dark. I had no idea what type of snake it was but i can say this i sure did give my fishing buddy in the back seat one hell of a show and i did bust a $300 g loomis rod on that poor snake...... That was a funny story to tell the guys a G loomis when they asked what happened to the rod....

Rookie, How is Jamaica?

Kill them: regardless of what the tree huggers say. I kill them and don't care who don't like it. You can determine if it is poisonous or not after he is dead.

jamaica is out of control, i see that tony and the mizar are still on your [censored] about killing snakes. i went snorkeling the other day and saw a sea snake. guess what.... i killed it just cause it was a snake. Long live the SNAKE FARM

Awesome...What about the rattlesnakes and copperheads?!!!

I couldn't even imagine that kind of terror!

Sea Snakes in Jamaica?? I saw a lot when I lived in the Philippines but I thought they were only indigenous to the South Pacific?

ok you got me Kaylor.

I decided not to respond since sea snakes are some of the deadliest snakes on the planet.

mizar you are the coolest

did anyone see the croc hunter episode where steve was swimmig around with, and playing with sea snakes and sea krates???, that was crazy, i'd never do that lol!!!

hehehehe just making sure you guys didn't know something I didn't.