haha, i was just playing around....I've killed a few....otherwise I let them go. None in the basement lol. I killed a bunch of garter snakes as a kid with a stick. Copperheads I always kill if they are in my yard or on my property, definitely dont want them around. My Dad had to shoot one once, it was a copperhead in my fenced in yard where my dog was, it was about 2-3 feet long. My dad also lost a dog to a rattlesnake bite in the catskills many years ago.