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RE: Introducing snakes on Steemit!
Rats carry Hanta virus, squirrels, the bubonic plague. One rattlesnake can consume 60,000 disease spreading ticks a year via it's prey! They are a most valuable asset to humans.
And usually reluctant to strike a human. I know, I tried telling folks that (well, not exactly that, just vermin control), but they want the rattlesnakes dead. I was not willing to translocate them because that is often just a way to have them die out of my sight. This was Central Florida in the 80-90s and just about everywhere was someone's back yard or just about to become a subdivision.