{"id":8548,"date":"2026-04-25T07:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/?p=8548"},"modified":"2026-03-31T07:59:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:59:05","slug":"western-diamondback-rattlesnake-defensive-in-scottsdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/snake-removal\/western-diamondback-rattlesnake-defensive-in-scottsdale\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Diamondback Rattlesnake Defensive in Scottsdale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A defensive <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/tag\/western-diamondback-rattlesnake\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"138\">Western Diamondback Rattlesnake<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/tag\/scottsdale\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"111\">Scottsdale<\/a>. This guy didn\u2019t stop rattling from the moment CJ stepped into the backyard until the time he was released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The property sat at the base of a boulder-strewn hill that was all private land, so CJ took the snake a bit farther to suitable public habitat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He released it into deep cover among granite boulders within its estimated home range, in an area with clear signs of recent rodent activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_1998-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_1998-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_1998-711x533.jpg 711w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_1998-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_1998.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A defensive Western Diamondback Rattlesnake in Scottsdale. This guy didn\u2019t stop rattling from the moment CJ stepped into the backyard until the time he was released. The property sat at the base of a boulder-strewn hill that was all private land, so CJ took the snake a bit farther to suitable public habitat. He released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[116,111,8,138],"class_list":["post-8548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snake-removal","tag-arizona-snake-removal","tag-scottsdale","tag-snake-removal","tag-western-diamondback-rattlesnake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548","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=8548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8550,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548\/revisions\/8550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}