Good grief, there’s still some trying to tell you it wasn’t a cottonmouth! All these internet herpetologists should really just trust the only eye witness there is. As in Humble was actually there, he didn’t “look it up on the internet”!
That's the way it goes sometimes.
It's all good, snake is dead, cats are fine and we're grilling steaks tonight.
Who knew killing a snake would cause such a ruckus???