You are so right. This is the way I deal with snakes.

Its very sad when most people who see a snake want to kill it,

even when it is moving quickly in the opposite direction,nearly

all the snakes you find around the house are water snakes if

you live near water,tree snakes ,very thin and fast moving,

Keelbacks,and if you are lucky Reticulated Python,in all my

time here thats all I have ever seen in my garden,and I am

pleased to say I have never killed any,they are totally harmless,

if left alone,and quickly go on their way.

Snakes do not go out of their way to attack you,the Mamba from

Africa will,and the mother King Cobra if on its nest of eggs.

regards Worgeordie

Its very sad when most people who see a snake want to kill it,

even when it is moving quickly in the opposite direction,nearly

all the snakes you find around the house are water snakes if

you live near water,tree snakes ,very thin and fast moving,

Keelbacks,and if you are lucky Reticulated Python,in all my

time here thats all I have ever seen in my garden,and I am

pleased to say I have never killed any,they are totally harmless,

if left alone,and quickly go on their way.

Snakes do not go out of their way to attack you,the Mamba from

Africa will,and the mother King Cobra if on its nest of eggs.

regards Worgeordie

I quite agree with your post. I will never forget my first encounter with a snake in my new home of just one month (many years ago). I was quite happily working on my desktop with my back to our open patio doors. My wife came down the stairs and exclaimed there was a snake coming in the front door, I turned round quickly and the snake scooted back out, much to my relief. Only once did I have to tackle a cobra and kill it. This particular large snake was lurking in our rain water drain for some time (days) and our neighbors were alarmed. While it was not aggressive, it was would not go away and folks were alarmed. I was walking out along our communal footpath and my dog was alerted to a threat, it was this large cobra, so I grabbed a shovel and cut it in half. Luckily the head was in the drain. My wife thought I was nuts to tackle this cobra. She was most likely correct. When I pulled the front part of the snake out of the drain I was quite shocked at the size/length of this snake.