Anything poisonous, is going to die on my place if I'm able. I let the corn snakes and the like pass on by though. The thing is that if you have a problem with rattlesnakes, copperheads, or moccasins; you almost always also have a mice problem as well. The only exception is with mocassins as they eat mainly frogs, but won't hang around long if there are no mice. We use to have canebrake rattlesnakes, copperheads, a few moccaisns around the ponds, and an occasional diamond back spotted every year, but that was when we were planting wheat and oats and leaving them in the field. That was when the price was too low to harvest and I would write the whole venture off on my books. My old dog was even bitten on the head by a 4ft canebrake several years ago. His face was so swollen he could not eat. The only thing the vet did for him was give him Benadryl. He quickly recovered after a week, so i don't think the canebrake is that venomous. His hair fell out but it quickly grew back. The poor thing would bark for hours over a garden hose or anything that looked like a snake after that. The Eastern diamondback is another story as if it were one of those, the dog would have probably died. I'm not afraid of them, I just value my family more than the right of the snake to live. Another thing with snakes is that they do not like a lot of noise or ground vibrations as they don't have ears. If you are riding atvs/tractors and such, most snakes will stay out of your way and will seldom be seen.