milk snake or copperhead?

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I always am amazed the generally people are freaked/grossed out by snakes, spiders, bats and bees--some of them most helpful creatures in the animal kingdom.
Of course, I don't want to see them in the house, either, but I won't kill them.
 
Bees, good. Relatively harmless to us, and a necessary part of our ecosystem.

German yellow jackets are dangerous, aggressive, sometimes deadly, and an invasive species. If I see them, I kill them.

With snakes, it's all about location and species. A garter in the garage gets captured and set free outside. A copperhead or rattler anywhere on my property, should that ever happen, would generate a call to someone who could safely remove it. We have too many kids running around to take a chance with having a deadly snake in the yard.
 
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