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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 4017168" data-attributes="member: 26737">I've seen two pygmy rattlers on my place. There was a huge wildfire south of Dirtybird, east of Noble about 15 years ago that reportedly drove them into new habitats, and residents of east Norman started having encounters with them shortly afterwards. There were enough of them that it made the Norman Transcript at the time.Both of the aforementioned pygmy rattlers met untimely ends; given my druthers I'd've let them go, but my bark bark of remarkably few brains wouldn't leave them alone. The first one got on the deck and couldn't figure out how to get off--it kept going back and forth along the retaining wall with the dog in pursuit, so a .22Colibri ended the chase.On the second one, I was installing a Roadmaster Active Suspension on my truck when I started hearing this incessant barking. She would often bark at things, but incessant barking was unusual, so I went back to investigate.She had a Pygmy rattler in a little clearing, and kept sticking her paw out at it, trying to get it to strike (I did say she was a bark bark of remarkably few brains). What she hoped to accomplish is beyond me, but being rather fond of her, I dispatched the snake with a pair of Klein lineman's pliers hurled with good enough accuracy from a bit more than six feet away.I hated to do it, as they were both beautiful snakes (I remember the distinctive purple colors on them), but when the choice is the dog or a snake, the dog is gonna win every time.</blockquote>

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