Aren’t all those wildflowers beautiful this year? My pastures are full of these multicolored weeds, but I enjoy seeing them. I also enjoy cruising down my Facebook page, looking at pictures of Texas in springtime. Unfortunately, you also see posts of all the snakes that appear this time of year. And on every one of these posts, somebody, often several people, will comment, “I hope you didn’t kill it.”

I figure most folks who make these comments have never had the misfortun...