{"id":9469,"date":"2026-09-30T08:37:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/?p=9469"},"modified":"2026-09-19T08:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:38:14","slug":"a-southwestern-speckled-rattlesnake-escaping-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/snake-removal\/a-southwestern-speckled-rattlesnake-escaping-the-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"A Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake Escaping the Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We\u2019ve been to this Ahwatukee home quite a few times over the years, usually for Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnakes. With the property sitting close to a rocky hillside in the preserve, that\u2019s not particularly surprising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This one was coiled beneath the north-facing back porch awning, realistically about the best place it could have ended up around the home on a day this hot. The shade there gave it a place to escape the worst of the daytime heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austin captured the snake and hiked it back into the preserve within its estimated home range. He released it into a deep caliche cave where we\u2019ve released other rattlesnakes from this same neighborhood in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We\u2019ve been to this Ahwatukee home quite a few times over the years, usually for Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnakes. With the property sitting close to a rocky hillside in the preserve, that\u2019s not particularly surprising. This one was coiled beneath the north-facing back porch awning, realistically about the best place it could have ended up around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9470,"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],"class_list":["post-9469","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469","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=9469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9473,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions\/9473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}