Reply #4: I'm OK with benign ones.

[trof]

Except they don't make any noise so they startle me.
You just come on 'em in unexpected places.
Once I see 'em I'm OK.

But we do have the rare pygmy rattler.
Which looks like a 'baby' snake.
Moccasins are the biggest concern.
I have a deal with them.
If they don't come on the lot, I don't kill 'em.
So far that's worked OK.

Last year a friend brought in some big potted plants to her sunroom for the winter. A few days later she was fertilizing them and felt a 'sting'. Then she saw the snake coiled around the bottom of the plant. It was a moccasin. I think the ER doc said there was no anti-venom and she got a tetanus shot. The arm swelled up and was feverish and then it subsided a few days later and she was OK.
:shrug: