Hate them as well. A funny story while living in Jasper TX as a youth me and my brothers are playing in creeks and woods of east TX. Well we catch a snake and bring it it home all proud. My Dad is in the yard and we say look what we have. It tells us to through it on the ground now. Well we did not do what he said till he said it again. Well he cuts heat of snake off with a hoe or something. We later learned we had a small cotton mouth.... Funniest think He says don't tell your mother and do not catch anymore snakes.cottonmouths are very bad there!