That’s just fear and ignorance. It’s pretty common for people to fear snakes and spiders.
My first reaction is certainly not, “kill it!”
And the demise of that darling dog was the fault of its owner, not the dang snake.
And I REALLY hope that they’re able to get the chain out and save the snake.
Ain’t no way I’d come on a forum full of “gutsy patriots” and admit that I’m terrified of ‘scary little critters’.
This place just blows my mind, sometimes.
So TEOTWAWKI comes, you’re hunkered silently in a foxhole, the enemy is nearby and the ‘strapping buck’ next to you shrieks like a girl because some spider or garter snake touches him.
Good God.
That’s just pitiful.