I don't know if I'm usually correct or not, LOL, and I have to confess that I didn't know if they were speaking of Florida Counties or Texas Counties, as my ignorance of those two states is greater than I care to admit. I do know that even here in coastal Virginia, where snakes do not tend to den in the same way that they do in the mountains, translocation is NOT advisable if you are trying to "help" the snake in question.



I believe that the stress on the snake(s) is observable in Eastern Diamondbacks in captivity... one reason why adults tend not to do very well when collected.... I have experimented on captive bred EDBs here and just rearranging cage furnishings is stressful enough in some animals that they'll stop feeding for a couple of weeks....or until I put their home(s) back in the condition they were in before I messed with them. I have moved snakes to a different part of my snake room, to give them an alternative view on the world... and this too can cause them to behave in a different, more aggitated, way for a few weeks.... Rattlesnakes are more sensitive, in my opinion, than many other species, which is one reason they are more appealing to keep than something (a burmese python perhaps???) that is only concerned with where its next meal will come from.



I find rattlers in general, with a few exceptions of course, to be almost as interested in what I'm doing as I am in what they're doing.... I could go on and on about the behaviors I have observed over the years, but I'm probably boring the tears out of most of you already.



It is good to see your name (Greg) on the message board. I have taken a fairly long leave from posting, and I can see that little has changed on the "venomous" one.... aside from the fact that some of the names have changed.... same old arguments... same old trolls.....



I'd still like toget down to Florida to hunt pygmies with you sometime... maybe you can teach me a little about Florida geography so I don't have to wonder next time if the post is about an Eastern or Western diamondback





Tom



>>Tom is, as usual, absolutely correct. However, snakes in that part of Florida don't den up like they do further north, so that possibility is not there.
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