A homeowner in Scottsdale was getting a house ready to sell when the painter mentioned seeing two rattlesnakes in the garage a few hours earlier. When we arrived, we found one neonate Western Diamondback tucked under a cone and the other hiding in the back of a utility closet, both inside the garage.
The garage door had decent gaps in the corners even when shut, which is all a small rattlesnake needs to slip inside and use the space as shelter. This community has a lot of natural desert right next to the homes and wide strips of desert between properties, so encounters like this are not surprising.
Both neonates were safely captured and relocated into nearby desert habitat with natural cover, away from the garage and walkways but still within the same general area they came from.
