Interesting little visitor this morning

[David Unnerstall]

I think I would still be running...right tired...but still running.

[Ham]

The first (and only) rattlesnake in the wild I have ever seen was a nice sized Pygmy Ratllesnake that came crawling thru while I was on the bluff lot. I kept working and he kept crawling. I had not seen him before or since.

I appreciate you more and more Rick.

[jdmidwest]

I think I would have packed him off a little farther than the fence line. There was some reason he was crawling around your property, probably mice. No need to risk a nasty bite if you don't see him next time.

[Terrierman]

Did he go peacefully on the shovel, or did you have something to contain him with during the relocation?

More or less peacefully. He crawled off once but a little persuasion with a piece of plastic pipe and he crawled right back on.

[Terrierman]

I think I would have packed him off a little farther than the fence line. There was some reason he was crawling around your property, probably mice. No need to risk a nasty bite if you don't see him next time.

How far would have been far enough?

[fishinwrench]

How far would have been far enough?

Wherever the mother in-law parks her car.

[Harps]

Good stuff that you didn't kill it IMO. I have yet to see a Rattler in the wild, copperheads and cottonmouths are another story however.

[Phil Lilley]

Beautiful creature.

[jdmidwest]

How far would have been far enough?

At least a county just to be safe! Several miles would have been enough, in the boonies, not in town.

Had an employee come in on Monday telling a story about a couple of his friends hooking up an old car in a field this weekend. One stuck his hand under to attach a chain and thought he was struck by a bolt of electricity. He thought there was a live wire attached to the frame. He started looking and found a nice little 4' timber rattler and realized he had been bitten. Looks like he will be alright.