StarEcho
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I've been staying in Buckeye Regional Park for a while off and on and this time managed to score a prime spot at the end of Robbins road. Kili loves going for walks and roaming but since I had heard about the rattlesnake dangers I've been keeping him close to me and leashing him all the time. Here is is at our campsite laying in the shade.
This morning I signed him up for Rattlesnake avoidance training with a company in New River, AZ
http://www.vipervoidance.com/home.html
Well anyway, this afternoon, shortly after this picture, Kili roused himself and brought me his ball for me to throw. So I did several times and one of those times it bounced off a bit so I went to get it and almost stepped on this:
[img=680x383]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/R...kbZZnDbGI0WW9BOxO5N0iTISw=w1006-h566-no[/img]
The really weird thing was after I came down from jumping a mile up and the screaming echoes died down, and I hustled Kili into the trailer, and thank you goddess that he actually listened to me this time!... the snake was in exactly the same position. No movement whatsoever. None. I took this picture standing on the picnic table. I threw a couple stones at it from the table and again, no movement whatsoever. I thought maybe it was dead, but couldn't figure out how it could have died. Trying to figure out when the heck it died there because it sure as heck wasn't there earlier in the day. And almost throwing up at the thought that Kili was laying very close to that snake????
Luckily I wasn't stupid enough to get close to it because after I went inside to look up info on typical behavior of rattlesnakes and came back outside it was gone. Shivers.....
So now I'm counting the hours until Sunday and hoping that Kili is a dog who will benefit from this training and not be hardheaded. And I'm absolutely DREADING taking Kili out for his evening walk....
This morning I signed him up for Rattlesnake avoidance training with a company in New River, AZ
http://www.vipervoidance.com/home.html
Well anyway, this afternoon, shortly after this picture, Kili roused himself and brought me his ball for me to throw. So I did several times and one of those times it bounced off a bit so I went to get it and almost stepped on this:
[img=680x383]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/R...kbZZnDbGI0WW9BOxO5N0iTISw=w1006-h566-no[/img]
The really weird thing was after I came down from jumping a mile up and the screaming echoes died down, and I hustled Kili into the trailer, and thank you goddess that he actually listened to me this time!... the snake was in exactly the same position. No movement whatsoever. None. I took this picture standing on the picnic table. I threw a couple stones at it from the table and again, no movement whatsoever. I thought maybe it was dead, but couldn't figure out how it could have died. Trying to figure out when the heck it died there because it sure as heck wasn't there earlier in the day. And almost throwing up at the thought that Kili was laying very close to that snake????
Luckily I wasn't stupid enough to get close to it because after I went inside to look up info on typical behavior of rattlesnakes and came back outside it was gone. Shivers.....
So now I'm counting the hours until Sunday and hoping that Kili is a dog who will benefit from this training and not be hardheaded. And I'm absolutely DREADING taking Kili out for his evening walk....