While living in New Mexico I came out of the house into the garage and stepped on a rattle snake that was snuggled up at the step down. Fortunately, for me not the snake,
I stepped on his neck so he could not turn and strike. Called the snake man and for $20 he came and emptied out my garage, found the critter and tried to nurse him back.
Unfortunately he died of a broken neck, but folks in the desert southwest honor and protect rattle snakes because they usually do more harm than good. There is room for
all of us on this earth so just move over and make room for our snake friends, who are not by the way slimy at all.
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