Moment nest of TWENTY hissing rattlesnakes is removed from an Arizona garage by a very brave pest controller
Moment when a nest of TWENTY hissing rattlesnakes is removed from an Arizona garage by a very brave pest controller
- A professional snake remover was called to an Arizona man’s garage after spotting some snakes lurking around his water heater
- Marissa Maki – the expert on duty – filmed the moment she removed TWENTY western diamondback rattlesnakes
- This is a record number of snakes that can be found with one call
This is the moment an intrepid pest controller caught 20 rattlesnakes in an Arizona garage after the creepy caterpillars refused to leave through a cracked door.
Marissa Maki, a snake removal expert, was sent to a garage in Mesa, Arizona, where she encountered a record number of rattlesnakes during one phone call.
An Arizona homeowner called a rattlesnake resolution team after seeing a few adult snakes and some babies.
He had left his garage door ajar hoping the snakes would come out, but a few days later they were still hanging out where he found them.
The man said to Maki, “You would think that after 23 years in Arizona I would be used to this. I tried not to panic, but…
The Arizona homeowner set the record for the most snakes ever removed for one call
Marissa Maki was the brave professional snake remover who came to the aid of an Arizona homeowner with twenty rattlesnakes in his garage
Too scared to investigate the snake situation from the garage, he said, “I tried to wait them out,
“I only saw them when I peeked around the corner.”
Maki started by first scooping up a mother snake with a grabber and gently placing her in a large bucket. The average length of an adult western diamondback rattlesnake is 4 to 6 feet.
The snake expert was shocked by how many snakes keep showing up. She said, “That’s a lot of snakes. Thats crazy. I’m not going to lie, this is crazy.
“The adults are shedding, the babies are shedding… wow.”
These fearsome creatures can live up to 20 years and use venom to immobilize their prey, including birds, reptiles and small mammals. Bites from western diamondback rattlesnakes are rarely fatal: only one in 600 bites contains enough venom to cause death.
Western diamondback rattlesnakes are a venomous member of the viper family found in the southwestern parts of the United States and Mexico.
The rattlesnakes hissed and rattled violently as Maki removed them and writhed on top of each other in the deep bucket.
Maki calmly scooped up all twenty snakes one by one and then released them into the Arizona desert
Western diamondback rattlesnakes can grow to be four to six feet long as fully grown adults and can live up to 20 years
Maki had to grab a whole bucket to store the babies – which she thought came from different mothers on the tubing team.
She even had to use large tweezers to get the right angle for the babies hidden in the crevices of the garage.
Marissa explained that snakes typically hang around for about ten days, waiting for their skin to shed before moving on.
She ended her expedition by taking the buckets of snakes to the Arizona desert and releasing all the creatures into large open areas of land.
After a final count of the snakes, she concluded that there were two mother snakes, three other adults and fifteen babies. One of the adult snakes was pregnant and had yet to give birth to her babies.