They scare me! Can't hear um comin usually, almost stepped on a few. Live in Mojave Green land and have seen bad bites from people playing with them or best yet-getn stoned and betting each other who is fastest, the snake or u and guess who ends up in ER? Guess it is O.K. to keep, so long as you know what you are doing. But don't they kill just about everything in that state--lots of hunters, I think! and they even kill each other, by accident. What about the Snappn turtles, got one of those too!