I just evicted a young rattler from my yard.

Rivrrat
Rivrrat Posts: 2,101
edited November 2011 in The Clubhouse
The little fella must have been spending the night under a bush near my driveway, I had just gotten home and he found the warmth under my truck. The rest of the family got home about ten mins after me and daughter Rat informed me that there was a snake under my truck. I looked under the truck, and sure enough, it was a young western diamondback rattler.

I took a stick and flipped him out from under my truck, got our dust pan with a long handle on it, and swept him up. I walked him down to the end of the cul de sac and dumped him out in the natural desert where he belongs.

He can live, just not in my yard.
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited November 2011
    You need to be very careful. Rats are a favorite meal for rattlers :mrgreen:
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  • Poee7R
    Poee7R Posts: 904
    edited November 2011
    Lemme be the first to say thanks for letting the little fella live, too often they're killed when they didnt have to be.


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  • 20hz
    20hz Posts: 636
    edited November 2011
    Poee7R wrote: »
    Lemme be the first to say thanks for letting the little fella live, too often they're killed when they didnt have to be.


    Dave
    I am all for letting animals live I have caught quite a few "visitors" and relocated them to their more natural habitat , but something found at my home that can kill me or my family members , I am sorry to say but I show no mercy at that time .
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,273
    edited November 2011
    It's that time of year when snakes are on the move. They come close to streets and driveways to seek the heat from the asphault and concrete before their winter nap.
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  • decal
    decal Posts: 3,205
    edited November 2011
    You call your daughter Rat? The snake should have bit you !!!
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited November 2011
    Thing would've been dead in a heart beat.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited November 2011
    I never kill them either, there's no need. Set'm free I say. Most of the time they are really quite docile, but I have had a few that rattled and were mean as hell. Young rattlers are the most dangerous, as they haven't learned to regulate their venom, and every bite is a bite-to-kill. Adults will often cut you some slack and give a "warning" bite with very little venom.

    Newbies to the desert often mistake Gopher snakes for rattlesnakes, due to the pattern and the fact that Gopher snakes "hiss" and will vibrate their tail in an effort to emulate a rattler. What a poser.
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