I live in Arkansas and in today's newspaper there was a picture taken by a dentist (right outside his door) of a king snake squeezing to death a copperhead snake. Then the king snake ate it. The article said that king snakes should never be killed and also stated that in AR it is against the law to kill any snake unless it is threatening you. Well, any snake is threatening to me. Threatening to give me a heart attack! hehe.