Lucky you!
The locals keep killing the snakes and we have rodents, galore.
Somebody smashed a ginormous black rat snake up the road from here that I would have dearly loved to turn loose under my house.
And the neighbors still can’t figure out *why* we have roof rats and mice running amok.
:-\
Hubby only kills ones he’s sure are dangerous (rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, etc). We hate to do that because they eat problem pests too. But we have little kids so can’t take the chance. King snakes and rat snakes though are treated with great respect!
I hate chipmunks. They eat food that my kids would have eaten. And they carry fleas! Bah.
Get some cats.