{"id":7889,"date":"2025-11-06T08:57:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/?p=7889"},"modified":"2025-11-06T08:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:57:30","slug":"some-people-dont-believe-rattlesnakes-are-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/arizona-snakes\/some-people-dont-believe-rattlesnakes-are-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Some People Don&#8217;t Believe Rattlesnakes are Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Believe it or not, we hear it all of the time &#8211; there are actually people who do not actually believe rattlesnakes are animals.<br><br>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\u2014why do so many people not see rattlesnakes as animals? Why is the first reaction so often to kill them?<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" style=\"width:420px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_WIYnF2EgbS8\"><div id=\"lyte_WIYnF2EgbS8\" data-src=\"\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/WIYnF2EgbS8\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WIYnF2EgbS8\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/WIYnF2EgbS8\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"420\" height=\"295\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:420px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, we hear it all of the time &#8211; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,30],"tags":[219,116,172,8],"class_list":["post-7889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arizona-snakes","category-rattlesnake-solutions","tag-animals","tag-arizona-snake-removal","tag-baby-snakes","tag-snake-removal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889","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=7889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7891,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889\/revisions\/7891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}