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All snakes are important to our environment, whether venomous or non-venomous. But I feel that we should not export or import venomous snakes. To many people can buy them and do not take care of them right and they get away from them. Even when buying venomous snakes there is no questions asked no experiences needed, althought you shouldn't be totally harrased I do think you should atleast be trained in snake handling before you can buy a venomous snake. Even if you only have to answer a few normal questions that have to do with the basics of snake handling. You should never buy a snake and whether on purpose or not let it get out. But if it does happen let the right people know, and tell them what it was and how big it was and be sure to let them know to not hurt it so you can put it back in its cage or if you don't want it then tell them that too. Don't buy big snakes unless you are experienced with them,your first snake should never be large. Read up on anything before you buy it. Never buy a dangerous pet if you have children at home. And if you do have children teach them the difference between pet snakes and snakes outside. Teach them to not try and catch any thing outside, it might be dangerous, and either way it will try to bite you. Another caution for people that handle snakes is that you should not put large snakes around your neck or shoulders..even the taimest pet snake there is can be frightened and jump(twitch) and in that split second break your neck. It has happened many times.

This is a coral snake. You have to be careful with him, he is venomous, but there is a snake out there that looks alot like him, a king snake, the king snake is nonvenomous,and he eats snakes, mostly rattle snakes. There is a way to be able to tell the differences between them. And it was made into a little poem to help you be able to remember the difference red on yellow-kill a fellow red on black-venom lack this is in reference to the three colors these two types of snakes share , the only difference between them is the order of the colors.

VENOMOUS SNAKES

This is a copperhead and at the moment he is in the process of finishing his dinner. Copperheads are a member of the pit viper family. This one looks like he is finishing off a mouse. Snakes can be very helpful to people by eating pest such as mice and rats. Keeping the rodent population down also helps to keep diseases that can be harmful to people down. Mice and rats where responsible centuries ago for spreading diseases such as the black plague.

This is a water moccasin it is also know as a cotton mouth, thats because of the way the inside of its mouth looks. They spend a lot of time in the water,they like to eat fish and frogs.As a child I was told that snakes don't bite in water, I learned that that was wrong I also was told that if a venomous snake does bite you while in the water it won't hurt you, I also learned that that was wrong. Snakes in the water can kill you just as fast as when they bite you out of the water.

This is a diamond back rattlesnake they are mostly in the south, in Texas they have what they call rattle snake round ups, right now the feelings about this is back and forth,some think that if they don't do it the snakes will get out of control, while others think it should stop because it is cruel.

This is a Timber Rattler. Rattle snakes are also in the pit viper family, this is because of the shape of there head. Rattle Snakes hibernate over the winter and they live in pits. In one pit you can literally find thousands of snakes all sleeping together. In some rare cases people have been know to build houses over these pits..and when spring comes the snakes have gotten out of the pits only to be inside of these houses. The last cases of this I heard of the family was home in bed when the snakes(diamond backs) came out of hibernation, sorry to say the family was dead and there was hundreds of snakes that had to be removed before the people could be removed.This is a sad thing but luckily it has not happened a lot.

This is a massgua. He is also a rattle snake but I don't have much info on him so I'm leaving it at just this at the moment. If you know a homepage with information about this snake please let me know. THANKS

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