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A cleaning crew found this Western Diamondback Rattlesnake lounging on the front porch, and the spot it chose was a little ironic: it was sitting right in a pile of snake repellent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael arrived and safely removed the Western Diamondback Rattlesnake. With a preserve directly across the street, he was able to release it within its estimated home range, deep inside a packrat nest where it had natural cover and shelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Snake repellents are commonly marketed as a way to keep snakes away, but finding a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake comfortably resting directly in a pile of it is a pretty good reminder not to rely on them for snake prevention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A cleaning crew found this Western Diamondback Rattlesnake lounging on the front porch, and the spot it chose was a little ironic: it was sitting right in a pile of snake repellent. Michael arrived and safely removed the Western Diamondback Rattlesnake. With a preserve directly across the street, he was able to release it within […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snake-removal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232","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=9232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9236,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232\/revisions\/9236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}