{"id":9630,"date":"2026-10-15T05:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T12:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/?p=9630"},"modified":"2026-10-15T05:48:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T12:48:50","slug":"a-late-night-kingsnake-inside-a-north-scottsdale-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/snake-removal\/a-late-night-kingsnake-inside-a-north-scottsdale-home\/","title":{"rendered":"A Late-Night Kingsnake Inside a North Scottsdale Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Austin got a late-night call to a North Scottsdale home where a large adult Kingsnake had somehow ended up inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a snake this size, there really aren\u2019t many realistic ways it could have entered the house unnoticed. Small snakes can occasionally find surprisingly tiny gaps around doors or other openings, but an adult Kingsnake needs considerably more room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The homeowner mentioned that he sometimes leaves the door open, which was almost certainly the answer to this particular mystery. At some point, the Kingsnake apparently found an open invitation and simply slithered inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Austin safely captured the unexpected houseguest and returned it to the outdoors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" data-id=\"9633\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_2027-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"A black-and-white banded snake partially hidden under a white appliance, slithering across tiled and wood flooring near a door frame.\" class=\"wp-image-9633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_2027-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_2027-666x533.jpg 666w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_2027-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_2027.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" data-id=\"9632\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_2026-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"Patterned snake wedged under a closed wooden door, two sections of its body visible through the floor gap.\" class=\"wp-image-9632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_2026-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_2026-666x533.jpg 666w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_2026-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_2026.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" data-id=\"9631\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_2028-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"Hand gently holding a black-and-white banded snake by its midbody inside a home, showing glossy scales and alternating light and dark rings.\" class=\"wp-image-9631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_2028-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_2028-666x533.jpg 666w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_2028-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_2028.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin got a late-night call to a North Scottsdale home where a large adult Kingsnake had somehow ended up inside. With a snake this size, there really aren\u2019t many realistic ways it could have entered the house unnoticed. Small snakes can occasionally find surprisingly tiny gaps around doors or other openings, but an adult Kingsnake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[116,8],"class_list":["post-9630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snake-removal","tag-arizona-snake-removal","tag-snake-removal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9630","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=9630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9634,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9630\/revisions\/9634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}