"Not if the animal is legally kept. Or if it was say a cottonmouth (native), that owner can just lie low... how will anyone ever know it was his and not from my creek?? He's not registered, if he was then they would know EXACTLY who's snake it was."

What are you making such a fuss about? I don't believe there has ever been a member of the general public in the U.S. or Canada that has been bitten by someone's escaped venomous snake. The probability of an escaped venomous snake biting you is certainly far less than the probability of being bitten by an indigenous venomous snake, and how often does that happen?

Furthermore, only a fraction of venomous snake bites result in envenomation and, again, only a fraction of people who receive medical attention die from envenomations.

Lastly, how would registration prove whose snake bit you? Would it not be possible for there to be both registered and non-compliant (unregistered) individuals? It seems to me that all registration would do would be to point fingers at innocent individuals, if it were the non-compliant individual's snake that bit you. If you're talking about micro-chipping, then that's a different matter, but as I started off my reply... are you not trying to "manufacture" a problem that doesn't really exist?

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