real genius?????

[ssssnakeluvr]

I took a call today from a lady here in Salt Lake City while at work....came in as an exotic animal call (my fave!!!!) said she had a diamondback rattler contained in a pillowcase. first of all, we only have great basin rattlers in this area, and no diamondbacks in Utah....so I called her. she was adamont it was one...so I explained to her we didn't have them, possibly could have been a rattler. it's not common for them to get as far into town as she lives, but not impossible. there is a large horse pasture right next to her place. I said it could be a gopher snake. she said no way was it a garter, she knew them. I said I had to pick up a dog and would be there in about a half an hour. I arrived and took a peek in the pillowcase....dark purple, kinda hard to see....as I opened it up further....I found her "diamondback" crawling on the bottom of the pillowcase.... here's her diamondback.....



hehehe......I said it was a baby garter!!! her daughter said You lose!!!!! LOL!!!! cute little girl!!! I love her pattern and light gray color!!!!! she got a great new home!!!!!



and another top shot of her pattern..love the little bars on the neck!!!! this photo turned out unique too.....she was flicking her tongue out when I took the shot....from this angle it looks like she has a mustache!!!!!!!

[Loren]

Very Nice!
I dont even hardly pay attention to peoples description of snakes anymore unless I think they actually know what they are talking about. I just tell them, " I'd have to see it."
6 feet long means 2 feet, yellow means brown, live means dead.

I like it when people tell me they found a five foot long(actually 20") gopher snake. Then I show them a real 5 footer, and they almost cr*p themselves.

[bio6464]

I'm not gonna lie Don..."that's a scary snake". At least she didn't kill it as most people around here seem to do with these "killer serpents".
Jerry

[Hornets23]

Yeah glad she didn't kill it. Man, thats some rattler...

[reptile3]

Whoa that is a cool looking snake!!

[ssssnakeluvr]

yea, I am happy she didn't kill it!!!

[infernalis]

That rattle snake scares me

[dashnu]

What a mean beast! Don you saved a family from certian death good work.

[Stefan-A]

Nice one, Don. Can I have it?


I met someone today who killed a baby grass snake (completely harmless as well as protected), because one of her tenants couldn't live with the idea that there were snakes near the cottage they were renting. In the ****ing countryside. For a moment there, I seriously considered smacking her upside the head with her own cat.

[infernalis]

One of my neighbors killed a baby milk snake last summer, it shook its tail at him, so it had to be a deadly rattle snake...

BTW 3 of my baby milks vibrate their tails... Quick Wyatt fetch a shovel