An Arizona man known as a snake elimination firm after seeing what he thought had been three rattlesnakes lurking within the storage of his Mesa home
September 14, 2023, 5:17 PM ET
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MESA, Ariz. — An Arizona man known as a snake elimination firm after seeing what he thought had been three rattlesnakes lurking within the storage of his Mesa home. He was improper.
There truly had been 20 snakes — 5 grownup western diamondback rattlers and 15 infants. One of the grownup snakes additionally was pregnant.
Snake wrangler Marissa Maki discovered a lot of the rattlers coiled across the base of a sizzling water heater within the unidentified house owner’s cluttered storage Tuesday.
“That is a lot of snakes. I’m not going to lie. This is crazy,” Maki mentioned in a YouTube video recorded by the corporate, Rattlesnake Solutions.
The western diamondbacks, with their distinctive triangular-shaped heads, are discovered all through the Southwest. And although their venom is much much less poisonous than different rattlesnake species, they nonetheless require care when being dealt with.
Maki used tongs to choose up every snake earlier than dropping them into giant plastic buckets and relocating them to a pure habitat in a desert space.
“This is our record for the most rattlesnakes caught in one call!” mentioned firm proprietor Bryan Hughes.
The quantity might have been increased. Hughes mentioned a number of shedded skins had been discovered within the storage, indicating as many as 40 snakes might have lived there sooner or later.
“We’ll never know how many rattlesnakes have come and gone over time,” he mentioned.
Rattlesnake Solutions made headlines in July when the corporate efficiently eliminated a non-venomous coachwhip snake from a Tucson home. Their 20-second video confirmed that 3- to 4-foot (roughly 1-meter) snake being plucked from a bathroom bowl and hissing straight on the digital camera.
