{"id":7461,"date":"2025-10-24T04:03:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/?p=7461"},"modified":"2025-09-23T04:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:04:15","slug":"rattlesnake-encounters-are-often-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/snake-removal\/rattlesnake-encounters-are-often-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"Rattlesnake Encounters Are Often Optional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Western Diamondback Rattlesnake was spotted by a homeowner coiled up on the back patio. The yard doesn&#8217;t yet have rattlesnake fencing, so the side gates might as well be propped wide open for an animal that&#8217;s only an inch tall. Austin went out to capture the snake and search for others (there weren&#8217;t any) and relocated the snake to a deep packrat midden within the snake&#8217;s estimated home range. The optional nature of this encounter (as many are) was discussed with the home owner as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1798-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1798-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1798-666x533.jpg 666w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1798-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1798.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The release site:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1799-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1799-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1799-666x533.jpg 666w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1799-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1799.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Western Diamondback Rattlesnake was spotted by a homeowner coiled up on the back patio. The yard doesn&#8217;t yet have rattlesnake fencing, so the side gates might as well be propped wide open for an animal that&#8217;s only an inch tall. Austin went out to capture the snake and search for others (there weren&#8217;t any) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,82,8],"class_list":["post-7461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snake-removal","tag-phoenix","tag-snake-fence","tag-snake-removal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7464,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461\/revisions\/7464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}