{"id":9610,"date":"2026-10-13T08:18:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/?p=9610"},"modified":"2026-10-13T08:18:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:18:53","slug":"a-very-well-fed-western-diamondback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/snake-removal\/a-very-well-fed-western-diamondback\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Well-Fed Western Diamondback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A homeowner called after discovering a large Western Diamondback Rattlesnake coiled around an Agave in her front yard. While Josh was on his way, the situation changed a bit. The rattlesnake ambushed a rabbit and had just finished its meal as he arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a very full stomach, the snake retreated into a burrow beneath the Agave. Josh used a hose to carefully coax it back out, which eventually worked. Getting it from there into the bucket required a little more convincing, along with some careful maneuvering around all the surrounding cactus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was already one of the larger Western Diamondbacks Josh has relocated this year, and the freshly eaten rabbit made it look even more substantial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh found a suitable wash within its estimated home range and, after some searching, located a large rodent den where the snake could be released directly into deep cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A homeowner called after discovering a large Western Diamondback Rattlesnake coiled around an Agave in her front yard. While Josh was on his way, the situation changed a bit. The rattlesnake ambushed a rabbit and had just finished its meal as he arrived. With a very full stomach, the snake retreated into a burrow beneath […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9613,"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],"class_list":["post-9610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arizona-snakes","category-snake-removal","tag-arizona-snake-removal","tag-snake-removal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9610","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=9610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9614,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9610\/revisions\/9614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}