Personally: I’d vote for “dead” or whatever he latin term might be.
My sentiments exactly.
We enclosed our front porch, I took out the full length glass and place the screen in leaning the glass against furniture inside the door. I saw a black snake on top of the stand, called my husband and he said I suppose you want me to move it. Well duh!! He tried sliding it into a bucket but couldn’t move the four foot devil. The result was chopping him into pieces with a Lord of the Rings sword from my son’s collection. I got grief from coworkers about how the snakes keep mice away but rat poison works so well.