I wish I felt the same way. I'm much less skiddish than I used to be, for sure. Ya grow up in the woods in OK & TX and you learn that water moccasins, copper heads and purple rattlers are less friendly than you'd like them to be. I honor them...from over there... I just don't feel like they wanna be smooshy or make friends is all.
I had a water moccasin try to eat my face in a creek bed when I was 7. A copper head wrapped itself around my ankle in another creek bed when I was 12. The purple rattler found it's way into our living room when I was 13. I don't dislike them, I just don't feel like they wanna be buds, is all. Ya know?