Steve, Respectfully, I disagree with you. He put the post up there looking for everyone to say(and so far they have) that he did the right thing. I disagree. What I'm saying is...... As an alternative to killing the snake, he could have..... Ill say it again, he could have JUST AS EASILY decided to take the snake to a vet and let the vet decide. That's all. I can't see how anyone in good faith, can find fault in what I'm saying. No one here has ever found a baby bird that was attacked by a cat and all beaten up and tried to save it? Sometimes he lived and sometimes he died but at least you tried. But you never said hey let me get a brick and kill it. Are we saying in a forum for snakes that snakes deserve less? I am not being judgmental Steve. Objective maybe but not judgmental.