{"id":9544,"date":"2026-10-15T16:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/?p=9544"},"modified":"2026-09-21T16:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T23:51:47","slug":"finding-a-western-diamondback-under-a-pool-raft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/snake-removal\/finding-a-western-diamondback-under-a-pool-raft\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding a Western Diamondback Under a Pool Raft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The homeowner was outside watering when they heard a rattlesnake somewhere in the yard. About 30 minutes had passed before they called, and by the time David arrived, the snake had moved from wherever it had originally been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That meant searching. The yard had plenty of landscaping, bushes, patio furniture, and other clutter, giving a rattlesnake no shortage of places to disappear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After working through the yard, David eventually found this Western Diamondback Rattlesnake hiding beneath a pool raft on the far side of the pool. After capturing the snake, he thoroughly inspected the rest of the property for any others before wrapping up the call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The homeowner was outside watering when they heard a rattlesnake somewhere in the yard. About 30 minutes had passed before they called, and by the time David arrived, the snake had moved from wherever it had originally been. That meant searching. The yard had plenty of landscaping, bushes, patio furniture, and other clutter, giving a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9546,"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-9544","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\/9544","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=9544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9547,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544\/revisions\/9547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}