I don’t have any issues with snakes but I’m not going to accept venomous ones in my yard. My dogs kill their fair share of garter snakes but I don’t want them tangling with a rattler.
Florida has an assortment of poisonous snakes. Usually they are not often sighted. We have Black snakes, corn snakes, rat snakes and garden snakes in and around the house. I see them when I do the weed pulling and when I’m stupid enough to leave a cast net by the garage door. Ever try to get a snake out of a cast net? Whenever there is a rattler in the neighborhood, the neighbors usually tell you how they killed it and buried it. Haven’t found many nature lovers around that ignore the rattlers or any of the other poisonous snakes. Not only pigs like them, the gators do too, which means some of the rattlers are tossed into the canal for disposal. ;o)