Texas homeowner reports "a few" rattlesnakes under house. Removal company finds 45.

CBS News ^ | March 20, 2019 / 11:15 AM | Staff

[ExTxMarine]

Sure that seems like a whole lot, but I bet he didn’t have any rat, raccoon, gopher, stray cats, etc... type issues either!

Just sayin’....

[Hot Tabasco]

Why is it you can get UNDER a house???

House trailer on blocks and struts.......

[CatOwner]

Most houses with crawl spaces have entry points to get in for maintenance of stuff like plumbing and HVAC. And vents for allowing air circulation. As houses get old, these are often compromised and critters are attracted to the warmth in winter.

Most common design of houses in the SF-SJ Bay Area of CA. Snakes are generally not an issue in that part of CA. But skunks and raccoons are, and if a female skunk gets under a house during the January-February time frame of their mating season, the resulting smell is brutal. This is particularly true if the skunk manages to find a weakness in the HVAC duct-work and crawls inside for warmth while the heater is running.

The house in the article must be an old design in TX, or at least in that part of the state. In and around Austin, seems nearly all of the houses built in recent years are on pretty thick slabs.

[Red Badger]

They were all asleep....................

[the_daug]

Must have been cold under the house cause the snakes they’re moving slow.

[Clay Moore]

I used to deer hunt near Abilene TX. You could go to certain portions of the old house we stayed in and stomp on the floor and the rattlesnakes would start buzzing.

The big ones ended up getting cooked for dinner over a campfire.

[Mr. K]

Rattlesnake is kind of tasty isn’t it?

Tastes bland like chicken with a bit of a shrimp/lobster texture, I am told, does anyone here know?

[imardmd1]

Or “only about ten acres” — of downtown Dallas.

[Slyfox]

[rktman]

Lots of places that can be done.

[Red Badger]

Tasty!..........................

[the_daug]

They’re not kosher.

[DeFault User]

Texans are traditionally rather understated.

I own a very small percentage of a few oil leases in Texas. Like, .004%. It's about enough to pay for 2 tanks of gas a year. ;O) Anyway, in our family, I refer to it as our vast Texas oil holdings. (We can overstate too.)

[PGR88]

Makes sense. Probably like roaches, for each one you see, there are 10 more hiding.

[Red Badger]

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[Osage Orange]

Bet he didn’t have a rodent problem..............

[Steely Tom]

So you kaynt bah yo’ suun his own dame football team, lack all o’his friens?

[bert]

I would suggest the rattlers den up in winter. Come spring, they will be gone until next year

[Red Badger]

Yes, it’s cold.................

[Zathras]

I was going to ask if it was a Kimber or a Glock