Believe it or not, we hear it all of the time – there are actually people who do not actually believe rattlesnakes are animals.

In this episode, Marissa and I respond to two calls for mother rattlesnakes. Marissa handles a litter that ended up inside a control box at a landfill, and I work with a mother rattlesnake that had a litter of babies in my care. We also talk about a question that comes up often—why do so many people not see rattlesnakes as animals? Why is the first reaction so often to kill them?