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Robert Kleinschmidt wrote:
 I doused the snake with cold water, which seemed to
> slow it down, then pulled it out with the rake and dispatched it.

next time, take the hose, put a jetting head on it (the kind with a gun-like grip is good) 
and turn your water up very high so the pressure is way up there.  Then hose the snake to a 
better location.  They will generally move themselves off quickly after this kind of 
treatment, and you don't have to go within 10 feet of them (hopefully.

If you don't have room for this kind of maneuver, screening off the porch and other areas 
now, while you know there aren't any more snakes there CURRENTLY, is a good idea.  Where 
there's been one snake, there will probably be more some other time.  

There are lots of rattlesnakes in the hills around here after all, and they do eat gophers, 
so they aren't that bad.

-Betty