I didn't mean to come off sounding as hot headed as I did. I am a snake lover at heart, I have been all my life. When I see any animal killed out of ignorance or fear, it does get to me. But at the same time, I ignored several important points. I did not know that it wasn't you specifically doing the killing. I ignored the fact that the pattern on the snake was aberrant, so it probably wouldn't look like the "normal" snake pattern presented in most books. I'll offer the same suggestion most of the people here have offered. Learn about the snakes in your area, teach your kids to leave them alone, respect them, and let them be. In most cases, when you see a snake, they're going to high tail it out of there as quick as they can. It's a cliche, but it's also true, they're more afraid of you than you are of them. Snakes are scared of people, and they definately don't want to go out of their way to bite something a couple hundred times their size Anyway, live and learn. And I do want to say thank you for posting, what you did is better than the thousands of other people who kill snakes every year and don't care about finding identity, the "the only good snake is a dead snake" ideology, which we all hear far too often in the general public. So thank you for posting, your post shows that you care, and you've got the right idea. Again, sorry if I sounded hot headed.

Kevin

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