Our encounter with a SNAKE!!!

Yesterday when we got home, the dogs were barking.  I knew as soon as I heard that bark that they had something cornered.  It was a snake!  They had that snake so mad!  I got the dogs inside and the snake proceeded to climb the small tree next to the deck.  I tried to knock it out of the tree to get it out of the yard but it kept trying to strike at the broom.  I ran in to get the camera to take a picture and when I came back out, the snake was headed out of the fence.  I once thought I would kill any snake but this is the second nonpoisonous snake that I have let live.  I just couldn’t kill the snake…