I live on a piece of property in Arizona where we have snakes everywhere. We dispatched 3 rattlesnakes in one week on our front patio area. This year we haven't seen any. We no longer dispatch them. We catch them and relocate to one of the nearby packrat nests. They're actually beneficial in keeping the rodent population in control.
This one is a good one. A gopher, or bull, snake.
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