LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 As desert temperatures rise, so do the chances of running into snakes \u2014 and one local family recently got a scare when a rattlesnake turned up in their backyard.<\/p>\n
Michelle Hartman said the encounter happened shortly after she and her family got home, when her children asked to go outside to play.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, so we had actually just gotten home. My kids had asked to go outside and play in the backyard, and I let them go out first, and I said, okay, I’ll be there in a couple of minutes,\u201d Hartman said. \u201cI go out, and I see them kind of huddling over our table outside, and I was like, hey, what are you guys doing? And I got closer, and I could see it was a snake, and I didn’t want to startle it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hartman said she quickly moved her children away from the snake, got them and the family dog inside, and watched the snake from inside the house.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd so I kind of grabbed my kids, pulled them back, ran them inside, made sure the dog was inside. And at that point, you know, I kind of just tried to keep an eye on it from our window,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Hartman said she first tried calling rescues or others who relocate snakes, but no one answered. She then called animal control.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo then I decided to call animal control, and they were out here within about 30 minutes, and they relocated it,\u201d Hartman said.<\/p>\n
Hartman said her children were 2 and 4 at the time, and she worried their curiosity could put them in danger.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight, yeah. I mean, with them just being so curious and we’ve never really had a talk of, you know, don’t touch snakes or scorpions or anything like that. I was kind of worried about them either being bit or them trying to touch it, mess with it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She said the family later had a conversation about what to do if they see a snake.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, you know, it’s later that day we had the conversation of don’t touch. If you see one, tell an adult, walk away, and that they’re dangerous,\u201d Hartman said.<\/p>\n
Hartman said the snake was identified as a sidewinder, a type of rattlesnake.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo what type of snake was it? It ended up being a sidewinder. It was a rattlesnake. That’s about all I know about them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Hartman said she believes animal control or trained professionals are the best option for handling a snake encounter.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, I did call my husband and some family members, but I don’t think they would have even touched it. So I would say Animal Control or someone that knows how to actually relocate it for you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Since the incident, Hartman said she\u2019s more cautious when going outside.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow that we go outside, I do tend to look around and make sure that I don’t see anything. So it’s always in the back of my mind now that we had one,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Hartman said she was told the snake would be relocated.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe just said relocate,\u201d Hartman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 As desert temperatures rise, so do the chances of running into snakes \u2014 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-676125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}