Saturday, October 25, 2008

Western Diamondback Rattlesnake




Yesterday, Dan went to pick up Nicole's friend, Emma, to bring her over for a play date. Emma was waiting on her front porch for about 5-10 minutes before Dan arrived. Afterwards, Emma's Mom, Erin, was on the porch too reading the paper. Shortly after that, a neighbor, Megan, came to ring the doorbell and caught something move out of the corner of her eye. She ran home and had her Mom call Erin. Erin & Mike found a baby Western Diamondback Rattlesnake on their front porch. Apparently, the snake wasn't too agitated when Erin & Emma were on the porch because he was snacking on a mouse. Mike did what he had to do, and I won't provide you the gory details. You may be able to see the feet of the mouse in these pictures.

4 comments:

Grace said...

ewwwwww! Where does Emma live - near Desert Trails?

virgdan1 said...

Emma lives in Vistancia in "The Cliffs", located northeast of the community center (sortof behind the school)

Wendy said...

YIKES!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Yowsers! Yah - I think he killed it pretty well.