“I’ve had to do it. Hated to do it, since they’re good at eating problem rodents,”
Eradicating rattlers is a happy duty. And maybe it’s just me, but if I had to choose, I would prefer to run into a rodent than a rattler.
There are plenty of snakes in the world. I could shoot every one I see in my life, and it would not dent the population.
Well, then you have never run into the deadly Icelandic Jungle Rat.
They jump out of the trees and gnaw off your nose.
There only known predator is the Icelandic Pissing Cobra.