First rattle snake of the season - Killed

[crash325]

Today killed Rattler #3 for this year. Bobby is my rattler alert, keeps them cornered or peed off until I show up. then just watches. It was under the end of the house. Sure a tough sucker, still trying to bite with major injuries, head almost cut off. #1 Was also under the house, #2 was right under the drivers side truck door. Last year it was 7 maybe 8, & 2 or 3 that got away.

They have been eating well, it was fat & slick skin, with fresh rattles,

I also learned my new dog is not snake smart. kept trying to smell the rattler. At least he understands "NO".

 

[Jim Nelson]

Today killed Rattler #3 for this year. Bobby is my rattler alert, keeps them cornered or peed off until I show up. then just watches. It was under the end of the house. Sure a tough sucker, still trying to bite with major injuries, head almost cut off. #1 Was also under the house, #2 was right under the drivers side truck door. Last year it was 7 maybe 8, & 2 or 3 that got away.

They have been eating well, it was fat & slick skin, with fresh rattles,

I also learned my new dog is not snake smart. kept trying to smell the rattler. At least he understands "NO".

Do the vets in your area have the rattlesnake shots? I've been getting them for our little guy for the last 10 years but haven't had to learn if they work.Around here they're $16 and yearly booster. I don't know if they work but I feel better,kind of like a rabies shot,don't know but sure hope they work.

 

[troutsqueezer]

At Summer's end, my snake wrangling is four, two large and two small. A slow year. All taken for a ride down to the edge of the lake and released. Now if I can just take that bear that came down from the King fire for a ride so he doesn't upset my apiary.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I bought my place four years ago as an unfinished short sale, and the only landscaping that had been done were a couple dozen beat up fan palms. The house sits on a point that sticks out into a canyon, and the pad it's on was bulldozed from rock. Whoever did it just left the boulders all around the edges, and the first spring I killed two rattlers within fifteen feet of the house. The next year a neighbor was over with is bulldozer clearing trees and brush, and I got him to push enough dirt up around the pad to bury most of the rocks. I was standing on one as he worked when I thought I heard steam coming from underneath it. The wife at the time heard it and told me not to kill it if it was a snake. So I left it alone but we still buried that rock. A week later I was cleaning up around one of the palms at that end of the house and heard rattling again, looked up to find one coiled about three feet from my hand. A shovel took care of that one, and later that week I found two more under a landscape boulder when I moved it with the tractor. Used the shovel again to take care of them. Now all the rocks on site are buried at least half deep with no overhangs or openings that attract snakes, and I haven't seen a rattler near the house in almost two years. If I see one out in the field or on the road I just give them a wide berth and leave them alone, but when they get that close to the house I make buzzard food out of them.