A Peoria homeowner found a baby rattlesnake coiled beside his front door. When he tried to catch it himself, the little snake escaped upward into a gap in the overhang of the home and disappeared completely from view. He called Marissa the following day to ask what he could do. With the snake hidden inside […]

A Chandler homeowner noticed this Kingsnake slithering across her living room before it disappeared behind a cabinet. When Marissa arrived, the snake was still hiding there. She moved the cabinet, safely captured the Kingsnake, and then worked out the most likely explanation for how it got inside. The homeowners leave the door open in the […]

The homeowner was outside watering when they heard a rattlesnake somewhere in the yard. About 30 minutes had passed before they called, and by the time David arrived, the snake had moved from wherever it had originally been. That meant searching. The yard had plenty of landscaping, bushes, patio furniture, and other clutter, giving a […]

A Peoria homeowner spotted a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake coiled beneath some pavers in the corner of his porch, just a few feet from the front door. When Marissa arrived, she noticed several tiny rattlesnake sheds around the pavers. After carefully moving some of them to get access to the snake, the story became pretty clear. […]

A homeowner called about a rattlesnake that had started showing up each morning and resting at the base of a fountain. It wasn’t difficult to see why the spot had become part of the snake’s routine. The fountain turned on during the day, providing a reliable source of water and likely attracting small animals looking […]

Austin got a late-night call to a North Scottsdale home where a large adult Kingsnake had somehow ended up inside. With a snake this size, there really aren’t many realistic ways it could have entered the house unnoticed. Small snakes can occasionally find surprisingly tiny gaps around doors or other openings, but an adult Kingsnake […]

An office park in East Tucson called after several small snakes were spotted around one of the planter beds. Gary searched the area and found two juvenile Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes using the landscaping for cover. With a wash nearby, they likely hadn’t traveled very far from more natural habitat. Both young rattlesnakes were safely captured […]

A homeowner in Red Rock spotted this Mojave Rattlesnake in the backyard near their kid’s playhouse. They kept an eye on the snake from a safe distance until Gary arrived, which made for a pretty straightforward capture. With the home surrounded by the open creosote flats typical of this area, the snake didn’t have to […]

The homeowner was arriving home when they spotted a snake moving along the driveway and heading for cover beneath a bush. By the time we arrived, the snake was nowhere to be found. We started working through the likely hiding places around the property and eventually found it next door, tucked beneath a different bush […]

The owner of a home in North Phoenix spotted this Western Diamondback Rattlesnake sheltering from the hot sun beneath some decorative landscaping. When Jason arrived, he noticed the snake had what appeared to be an older laceration that was still healing. Rattlesnakes live pretty rough lives, and injuries like this aren’t especially unusual in wild […]