Yeah. NO!
I suspect those requesting rattlesnakes must like rattlesnake meat.
” 24-inch snake tongs”
I wonder if even 48” would make me feel outside the strike zone.
There would be no rats entering that house.
I say, let them stay.
I have a hard time wrapping my old head around, “ relocate them to areas where they’re welcome”.
I have never in my near 80 years found a place where Rattlesnakes are welcome.
Gasoline, match. House becomes collateral damage…
Hmmm, plenty more rattlesnakes in congress.
I love Ernest movies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmfH2A7Iz6g
Official Ernest: Ernest Saves Christmas- Ernest’s Snake Farm
After Al cleans out the rattlesnakes from a home he hands the owner a card for the Sonoma County Rodent Rescue and tells them to hang onto it for about a year.
Snakes have very different boundary issues than us human. lol. I'm always amazed when I see them so intertwined and on top of one another. I'd feel claustrophobic. But they probably feel very safe and clear about who's who and what's what. Fascinating species.
“...remove 22 adult rattlesnakes and 59 babies and relocate them to areas where they’re welcome...”
Blue Cities’ Ghettos?
YUCH!!!!
Collectables?
Rattles keeping them awake ,LOL
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.
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.”
Looked like a meeting of the ABA.
Redistricting.
One of my favorite songs. (he wrote “Up
Against the Wall. Redneck Mother”)
Ray Wylie Hubbard “Snake Farm”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89VR_lZehw4