Pigmy Rattlesnake

I learned from my mom on Sunday that she picked up a Pigmy Rattlesnake inside her home, specifically inside her bathroom late last week. It turns out that my dad had a large safe delivered and the people who delivered and installed it left the doors open for quite a while.

She assumes the snake came in through the doors and made its way through his office (a very large room) and either crawled under or came through open door from his office into their bathroom. They have marble floors which get very cold with the A/C on and she happened to notice this snake laying motionless on the marble floors. She ended up picking up the snake with a pair of tweezers and set it on her bidet. The snake laid motionless. She returned a few minutes later and placed the snake inside a grocery store bag so that her grandson could see it and identify what kind of snake it was (as he is reading all about snakes).

Long story short, my dad returned to pick up the snake and deliver it to their grandson. The snake was alive. Not fully alert, but alive. And it could have caused some serious damage. My mother, not knowing a venomous snake from a non-venomous snake is very lucky, in my opinion, to not have been bitten. She estimated the snake to be just over 1 foot long.

This was the second time that we know of where a Pigmy Rattlesnake was found on their property by us. The first time, I had one crawl up my foot as I was standing on the corner of our pool. I immediately shook him off and my father got the pool net and caught him. We then poured acid over him and that was that.