{"id":8908,"date":"2026-07-01T06:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/?p=8908"},"modified":"2026-06-10T06:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:58:17","slug":"kingsnake-and-a-toad-in-queen-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/snake-removal\/kingsnake-and-a-toad-in-queen-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingsnake and a Toad in Queen Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/tag\/kingsnake\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"97\">California Kingsnake<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/tag\/queen-creek\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"179\">Queen Creek<\/a> was cruising around the homeowner\u2019s front yard before eventually deciding the neighbor\u2019s basketball hoop was the perfect hiding spot. That made for a pretty easy capture when Austin arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The home backed up to open fields filled with brush trimmings and debris, providing excellent habitat for a kingsnake. Austin safely relocated the snake to suitable habitat within its estimated home range, where it can continue doing what kingsnakes do best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" data-id=\"8910\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0678-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0678-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0678-666x533.jpg 666w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0678-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0678.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" data-id=\"8911\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0679-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0679-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0679-666x533.jpg 666w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0679-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0679.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"766\" height=\"613\" data-id=\"8909\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0680.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0680.jpg 766w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0680-666x533.jpg 666w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California Kingsnake from Queen Creek was cruising around the homeowner\u2019s front yard before eventually deciding the neighbor\u2019s basketball hoop was the perfect hiding spot. That made for a pretty easy capture when Austin arrived. The home backed up to open fields filled with brush trimmings and debris, providing excellent habitat for a kingsnake. Austin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[97,179,103],"class_list":["post-8908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arizona-snakes","category-snake-removal","tag-kingsnake","tag-queen-creek","tag-toad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908","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=8908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8912,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908\/revisions\/8912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}