Why do people kill snakes?

I posted a short video of a timber rattlesnake swimming that I saw on a wilderness hiking trip this past weekend.

It got around 130K views in 12 hours, as do most of my snake videos.

I hid a lot of comments from people who talked about how I should have or how they would have killed it.

I don’t believe in killing snakes, not even venomous ones.

Here’s my argument:

30 to 50 people die each year in the US by dog bite. 60% of those people are children.

10 to 15 people die each year in the US by venomous snake bites. The ages of victims are typically 17 to 27 years old.

So, with that being said, people (children specifically) are more at risk to die by dog attack than by snake in the US.

If we went around killing dogs to prevent kids from being killed by them, there would be a public outcry, regardless of the fact that dogs kill more kids than anything else each year.

I love dogs and could never harm one, but it proves a point.

Dogs can chase you down, but snakes can’t, and they don’t. The myth that ” snakes are going to chase you” is nothing more than a myth; otherwise, there would be video after video of it.

So, why kill a snake? Statistically, they’re safer than dogs.