92 poisonous rattlesnakes were found in the homes of American women
On October 2, 2021, a woman living in Santa Rosa, California, usa, prepared to clean her home for a party she was planning to host. Because the location of the home is at the foot of the mountain, the lady is ready to spot wild animals in the house, but when she starts cleaning up the house, she almost immediately finds 10 snakes under the floor! Usually found 1-2 is able to get on the level of news, this time found these many? She immediately called Al Wolfe, director of the Sonoma County Reptile Rescue Bureau, hoping he would help.
Al Wolfe was not surprised by this, because the lady was so frightened that he immediately drove to deal with it. When he stepped into the room, the faint sound of "quacking" came from nowhere, and then he randomly opened a wooden floor, and he just happened to see several snakes inside.
The veteran reptile rescuer, who had been bitten by a snake 13 times, realized that something was wrong, immediately returned to the car to prepare a set of tools, and took 2 buckets of water to prepare for the snake, but he still underestimated the number of snakes in the house. He searched the room carefully, spotting snakes in almost every corner, and the 2-meter-long snake rod that stretched freely became his biggest reliance.
Outside the house, the owner lady saw Al Wolfe pulling the snake out and putting it into the bucket back and forth, and her heart was beating wildly, so many snakes had just been discovered? Al Wolfe worked for 3 hours and 45 minutes before he finally found all the snakes in the house and counted them, and there were 92 snakes! Among them were 22 adult snakes and 70 juvenile snakes, and he also found an additional dead cat and a possum.
These snakes are the only venomous snakes in Northern California, the North Pacific rattlesnake, and they are highly venomous, and the "rattling sound" they hear when they enter the room is exactly what their tails make.
Why so many?
Wolfe has been rescuing reptiles for 32 years, but it's the most snake he's ever seen in a place. He believes that under this Santa Rosa house should be the nest of the North Pacific rattlesnake, because there are a large number of juvenile and female snakes. August-October coincides with the breeding season for the North Pacific rattlesnake, which usually looks for rocks and other warm places to hibernate in the fall, and the owner of the house told Wolfe that they did not remove any rocks when they built the house, which may have made it an ideal winter haven for rattlesnakes, but also caused a lot of trouble for Wolfe, because he flipped more than 200 rocks during the search.
The owner of this house did not know whether it was because of laziness or for aesthetics, directly did not deal with the foundation, built the house around some rocks. When they were built, these North Pacific rattlesnakes happened to be out of home, and when they returned home, they didn't care much about finding that there was an extra house on the nest, and they continued to go in and breed, so there was an event that was a little scary for humans.
postscript
This number of swarms of poisonous snakes is bound to cause panic, so the local news media chose not to disclose the specific address and name of the woman, but simply told the local people to be careful.
Now we can only be thankful that no accidents have occurred. Wrong! For these North Pacific rattlesnakes, this in itself is an accident, the impact is that they have lost their nests, these thoughts, the victims are actually them, obviously they came first.