LARRY: Not so much trying to give you hard time, but I have to ask. What looks "venomous" or "viper-like" about a corn snake other than being roughly "snake shaped"?

BILL: Sorry Larry, but for the average person, simply looking like a serpent is MORE than enough to cause a very violent reaction on the part of most people!

LARRY: There are only about 5 species of venomous snakes in MS and you have never seen one of them. If you looked them up and learned how to identify those 5 you'd probably never have an excuse to kill another snake.

BILL: Thanks Larry, I will ID them immediately so I know what I am looking at next time.

LARRY: Now to give you little bit of hard time. I ran into perhaps of couple of dozen (positively identified) venomous snakes long before I ever started keeping them... I never saw any need to kill one. If the second one was actually in your house, I can sort of understand that, though if you google something like "relocating venomous snakes" you can find descriptions of how to safely remove them with probably less danger to yourself than you would have incurred while killing them.

BILL: My wife freaked, as did I, when we found that snake in our house (that was the 3rd snake that got inside, too). She has an issue with snakes, but now we will try to relocate the non-venomous ones. But, sorry to say, the venomous ones -- whether I find them in our house or outside in the garden -- will be on the wrong end of my pellet gun. I will not risk my family for any snake!

Thanks again,

-Bill

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