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This Western Diamondback Rattlesnake<\/a> was found sleeping on a back patio, apparently pretty comfortable with the spot it had chosen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The snake was extremely relaxed and the capture was about as easy as they come. The homeowner had an elderly dog and was understandably concerned about leaving the rattlesnake in the yard, so David also checked the property for any others. None were found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The snake was given some water and held until dusk, when temperatures were more appropriate for release. David released it directly into deep cover, and unlike its attitude on the patio, it was very eager to get moving once it was back in the desert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This Western Diamondback Rattlesnake was found sleeping on a back patio, apparently pretty comfortable with the spot it had chosen. The snake was extremely relaxed and the capture was about as easy as they come. The homeowner had an elderly dog and was understandably concerned about leaving the rattlesnake in the yard, so David also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[116,8,138],"class_list":["post-9517","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-western-diamondback-rattlesnake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517","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=9517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9521,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517\/revisions\/9521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}