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Almost 100 rattlesnakes removed from underneath Santa Rosa home
Press Democrat ^ | 13 Oct 2021

Posted on 10/13/2021 3:24:36 PM PDT by rey

It’s not uncommon for Sonoma County Reptile Rescue director Al Wolf to receive a call from a resident about a snake or two in their home.

But even Wolf was surprised to discover nearly a hundred rattlesnakes underneath a Santa Rosa home on Oct. 2.

He has led the Sebastopol-based nonprofit reptile rescue organization for more than 30 years and this was the first time he’d seen so many in one house, he said.

Wolf used 24-inch snake tongs to remove 22 adult rattlesnakes and 59 babies and relocate them to areas where they’re welcome.

“I go to specific areas where people request them and give them a new home,” he said.

Although there were a decent number of adults, seeing so many young snakes is what impressed Wolf the most

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: rattlesnakes; snake; whyisitalwayssnakes
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To: Secret Agent Man

I’d relocate them to Central Park and grassy areas in DC. Let those filthy tree huggers enjoy the outdoors.😎


21 posted on 10/13/2021 3:52:34 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Tupelo

This is correct. I don’t have many rattlers here, but I have a BUNCH of copperheads. I always “re-locate” them, ‘cause dead snakes stink around the house..


22 posted on 10/13/2021 4:02:58 PM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: rey

Collectables?


23 posted on 10/13/2021 4:04:34 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: GOP Poet
Enjoy the bite!


24 posted on 10/13/2021 4:14:45 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: rey

Rattles keeping them awake ,LOL


25 posted on 10/13/2021 4:15:04 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Veto!

Rattler tastes like chewy chicken.


26 posted on 10/13/2021 4:18:25 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Were State Dept. Havana Syndrome victims the guinea pigs of 5G/graphene oxide "vaccine" tests?)
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To: doorgunner69

Pretty sure that was suppose to read two four foot snake tong’s. I’ve never seen 24 inch snake tong and I’ve caught rattlers since the 70’s and worked both the Big Spring and Sweetwater roundups here in the Permian Basin.


27 posted on 10/13/2021 4:35:36 PM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Snakes will be back. They den up like that in a favorite spot.
Just like my neighbor with raccoons. He kept relocating them. He gave me one. I put a spot of red paint on him and released him ten miles away. Two days later He said he caught a coon with a red dot.


29 posted on 10/13/2021 4:43:05 PM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: Tupelo
"a place where Rattlesnakes are welcome"

Sweetwater, Texas.

Locals in town are known to raise rattlesnakes in backyard pits for the annual Rattlesnake Roundup.

Prizes for the biggest, longest and heaviest rattlesnakes.

30 posted on 10/13/2021 4:45:51 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: rey

Worse yet: There was a toad on my patio chair. I live on the 3rd floor. How does a toad get up here? It’s the 2nd one.

Scared me.


31 posted on 10/13/2021 4:59:44 PM PDT by BarbM (FU Pence. You refuse to be alone with a woman, but have no compunction in screwing the USA))
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To: rey

I can’t imagine an area where relocating rattlers would be welcomed.

My first memories are of living in Langtry, Texas in 1953. I was three. I’m from a multi-generation Border Patrol family, and my dad was stationed there as a new Border Patrol agent (inspector, then), during Operation Wetback. The population of Langtry, then, was about 30, which included those of the four Border Patrol families living there.

Fifty years later, the population was 11. Langtry is the home of the Judge Roy Bean Museum, and a Texas state rest stop along the highway. The rest stop has about a two acre cactus garden. The guy, fifty years later, who ran the rest stop for Texas, moved to Langtry about the time we moved to Del Rio. In our conversation, my bride asked him if they get any poisonous snakes in the cactus garden (which has a good walking or meandering path through it). His reply:

“Oh, sure. Once or twice a year someone from New York or New Jersey will tell us of a snake in the garden, usually a rattler or copperhead...and then they always say, ‘You’re not going to kill it, are you?’ I always reply, ‘No, we’re going to relocate it.’ After they leave, we kill it and relocate it out into the desert.”


32 posted on 10/13/2021 5:01:46 PM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: doorgunner69

I would have used a .22 40 grain conical round. 😐


33 posted on 10/13/2021 5:04:07 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Howie66

Send them to the border


34 posted on 10/13/2021 5:07:53 PM PDT by lilypad
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To: rey

Looked like a meeting of the ABA.


35 posted on 10/13/2021 5:09:21 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: Veto!

Tastes like chicken!


36 posted on 10/13/2021 5:23:55 PM PDT by Exit148
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To: Deaf Smith

Yep. There’s a whole lotta rattlers out that way.


37 posted on 10/13/2021 5:26:30 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Bonemaker

Hope that is not a personal experience picture!!


38 posted on 10/13/2021 5:37:43 PM PDT by YouGoTexasGirl ( )
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To: Bonemaker
Re: pic in post 24

If you get bit in Texas, call ahead to find what hospitals carry the antivennom.

Many do not due to expense and it being perishable.

If all they do in the ER is mark lines above the bite, pack up and start calling.

39 posted on 10/13/2021 5:50:54 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: YouGoTexasGirl

Hell no! I’m a snake-o-phobe! I’ve lived where they are and am extremely cautious!


40 posted on 10/13/2021 5:59:19 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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