{"id":9679,"date":"2026-10-28T07:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T14:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/?p=9679"},"modified":"2026-10-20T07:26:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T14:26:43","slug":"a-monster-sonoran-gophersnake-mistaken-for-a-rattlesnake-in-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/snake-removal\/a-monster-sonoran-gophersnake-mistaken-for-a-rattlesnake-in-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"A Monster Sonoran Gophersnake Mistaken for a Rattlesnake in Anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An Anthem couple was outside with their dogs when they noticed the dogs investigating a large snake near their backyard shed. Thinking it was a rattlesnake, they brought the dogs away and gave us a call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Marissa arrived, she had some good news. The snake wasn’t a rattlesnake at all, but an absolutely enormous Sonoran Gophersnake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The property had a very large backyard, but almost no vegetation or natural cover. The shed area was one of the few places where a snake could find some protection from the sun and predators. With native desert surrounding the property, it wasn’t surprising that a snake had found its way into the yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once the homeowners learned that their visitor was a harmless Sonoran Gophersnake, they decided to let it stay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this wasn’t just a big Gophersnake. According to Marissa, this thing was a beast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An Anthem couple was outside with their dogs when they noticed the dogs investigating a large snake near their backyard shed. Thinking it was a rattlesnake, they brought the dogs away and gave us a call. When Marissa arrived, she had some good news. The snake wasn’t a rattlesnake at all, but an absolutely enormous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9682,"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-9679","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\/9679","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=9679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9683,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9679\/revisions\/9683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}