I once knew a rattlesnake so poor...
How poor WAS he???
... that he didn’t have a pit to hiss in.
Must be the one that lives under the coffee shack. Poor guy can’t really eat the mice as there are very few and the big gopher snakes beat them to it. 12 years ago there were lots of them around here. That’s because there was no control of the rats and mice. Now after ridding ourselves of most of the big guys, they stopped coming around.
Your back forty is most likely teeming with a few critters. I would think possums and lots of quill loaded fellers.