Does it taste like chicken?
I still have a long set of snake tongs from my time in Arizona. Anything on my property, if it didn't rattle, I left it alone. If it rattled, I would drop it in a 5 gallon bucket and call the local snake club to relocate it. People in other states with poisonous snakes that don't have the decency to rattle for you, well, I would just move.