{"id":8790,"date":"2026-06-09T12:35:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/?p=8790"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:36:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:36:50","slug":"speckled-rattlesnake-found-in-tortoise-enclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/snake-removal\/speckled-rattlesnake-found-in-tortoise-enclosure\/","title":{"rendered":"Speckled Rattlesnake Found in Tortoise Enclosure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A homeowner living alongside the South Mountain<\/a> Preserve contacted us after discovering a very \u201cwhiteish\u201d rattlesnake beneath a water bowl inside their Sonoran Desert Tortoise enclosure. The family has participated in Arizona\u2019s tortoise adoption program for nearly 20 years, so wildlife encounters are nothing new to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While servicing the tortoises and refreshing their water, they uncovered the snake and gave us a call. By the time Alivia arrived, the rattlesnake had moved into the shade beneath a nearby hose caddy. Excitedly, she explained to the family that it was actually a beautiful Speckled Rattlesnake, a species specially adapted to the rocky terrain of the mountain preserve directly behind their home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As fellow desert wildlife enthusiasts, the homeowners shared in the excitement and agreed the best solution was to relocate the snake nearby within its estimated home range, but away from their beloved tortoise pen. During the conversation, the tortoises themselves slowly emerged from their burrow one by one, seemingly curious about all the attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alivia ultimately relocated the Speckled Rattlesnake deeper into the preserve, hiking to an isolated rocky outcrop farther from surrounding homes and buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A homeowner living alongside the South Mountain Preserve contacted us after discovering a very \u201cwhiteish\u201d rattlesnake beneath a water bowl inside their Sonoran Desert Tortoise enclosure. The family has participated in Arizona\u2019s tortoise adoption program for nearly 20 years, so wildlife encounters are nothing new to them. While servicing the tortoises and refreshing their water, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[116,8,170,267],"class_list":["post-8790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arizona-snakes","category-snake-removal","tag-arizona-snake-removal","tag-snake-removal","tag-speckled","tag-tortoise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790","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=8790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8795,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790\/revisions\/8795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}