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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue Heeler" data-source="post: 4266918" data-attributes="member: 46613">When we lived in AZ, I use to rescue rattlesnakes from neighbor’s yards. One time out of a bedroom closet.  Most were not very big so I would take a pool skimmer basket and scoop them up and relocate them.  If they were too big for the pool skimmer, I would use a large trash can and wrangle them in then take them out to the desert.  Once pulled a Green Mojave out of a neighbor’s pool.  He was just going for a swim. I wasn’t able to take him out of the yard.  We lived on a golf course so I checked to make sure no one was on the fairway and launched him.  Key to launching a snake out of a pool skimmer basket and especially a very deadly one like the Green Mojave is to do it sidearm or a three quarters arm.  You don’t want to use an overhead motion in case he flops out on your head. I sent him on his way … he stopped to say either “thank you” or “f*** you” before slithering quickly off the fairway.  Rescued quite a few in the years we lived there and only had to put one snake down.  We had just finished up having a bunch of people over for a party.  Cleaning up and by one of the doors leading out to our patio, a +4’ rattlesnake was curled around a large terra cotta planter trying to keep warm.  Not sure how long that snake was there since people were just leaving and had been going in and out of that door all night.  At first, I didn’t think it was a rattlesnake because it did not “rattle”.  I promptly shut the door and told my wife to keep the kids, dog and cats in the house.  Pointed to the snake out the window and she screams, “KILL IT!”  Snake did not deserve to die. I tried to convince this snake into relocating but it started to rattle and strike at me.  Spent 30 minutes trying to get it in the can … thought it would tire out but it didn’t.  I had to put it down.  I don’t like killing animals unless I eat them so I thought about grilling it.  We had an outdoor kitchen set up with a huge grill.  Wife quickly vetoed that.  I would say that even poisonous snakes don’t deserve to be put down but I have never come across a water moccasin or coral snake… which I am pretty sure I would shoot the s*** out of.</blockquote>

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