Hissing isn't threatening your life, it's how they tell you that they're there. Either way, all I'm saying is that it's a slippery slope when making posts about killing federally protected animals, whether you're in the right or not.
Only good poisonous snake is a dead poisonous snake. Constrictors like Gopher and bull snakes get a pass. Heck,bull snakes kill rattle snakes along with king snakes. Over the last 20 some years I've killed 13 rattlers 9 of which were Mojave green rattlers.
Just know that rattlers don’t always rattle. Also, that bullsnakes look a little bit like rattlers, sometimes overwinter with them, and learn to vibrate their rattle-less tails to mimic their denmates. But bullsnakes are nonvenomous and help cut down the mouse population.
Is the Mojave the one that’s known for being irritable? Good reason to kill it if you encounter one.
My reason is Mojaves have killed 2 of my dogs. I see a rattlesnake I'm going to try and kill it! Don't care if it's protected or not I'm going to kill it.
