[GH85Carrera]

One of our family friends retired, and finally moved back to the farm where he grew up. He had inherited it from his parents and loved the place. So the spent some money and hired a crew to modernize the place, and make it nicer. His first morning of retirement he got up at dawn to watch the sunrise from his porch. He grabbed a big cup of coffee and went to the rocker to enjoy the view. There on the porch was a rattlesnake. So he fetched his .38 with snake shot, and killed it. Ahhh, relaxing view. The next morning he made a pot of coffee and headed to the porch. Dang it, another rattlesnake. Blam, problem solved. This is all in rural Texas, so no problem shooting snakes.

Third morning, he makes the coffee, brings the .38 and sure enough another dang rattlesnake. One per day for three days in a row. So he called a local rattlesnake hunter to come check out his place. The guy went under the house for a few seconds and backed right out. He said it was a sea of rattlesnakes. The ended up with over 40 rattlesnakes that were captured. He said he had noticed there were no signs of mice or any rodents anywhere in the area. Within a few months he had a rodent problem. He bought some rat snakes, and let them go in the barn. He was happy to find a king snake in the area not long after. No rattlesnakes since. On occasion they have to take a snake outside, but it is a good snake.