Reptile expert reveals how he got rattlesnake out of bottle without being bitten

A reptile master explained nan steps he and his woman completed to safely region a rattlesnake that was discovered trapped successful a integrative bottle.

Professional snake catcher and Rattlesnake Solutions worker Tim Agnello recalled nan arena this week pinch the Miami Herald.

A kid first spotted nan Western Diamondback Rattlesnake astatine their Arizona home.

Described arsenic a 'dangerous business for each involved' connected a Facebook post, Tim escaped unharmed aft removing nan reptile from nan bottle.

Agnello utilized respective devices while removing nan snake: Oil, scissors, a snake tube, and a 2nd brace of hands.  

The kid successful North Phoenix recovered nan snake successful nan family plot aft proceeding rattling successful early October.

The family past contacted Rattlesnake Solutions astatine astir 10:00 pm, and Agnello rushed complete to help.

'It was a 2-foot occidental diamondback, and it was stuck half successful and half retired of this vessel that was portion of nan irrigation system,' Agnello told McClatchy News.

'The vessel had to beryllium secured to thing for nan snake to push its measurement into it. We've seen each kinds of crazy worldly connected calls, but this was a bully one,' Agnello said.

The feisty rattlesnake was itching to get retired of nan bottle, and Agnello revealed nan animal would've died of starvation if it hadn't been rescued.

Agnello later enlisted his wife, Wendy, to thief him pinch nan rescue truthful that nan Western Diamondback wouldn't bite.

The master past utilized scissors and a snake conduit to break nan bottle.

'We had 2 sets of hands and Wendy sewage lipid and lubed up nan snake. We tried to propulsion it retired of nan bottle, but it was excessively stuck,' Agnello explained.

The brace realized nan vessel needed to beryllium trim off, truthful they placed nan rattlesnake's caput successful a snake conduit to support it from biting them.

Agnello past started snipping nan vessel pinch scissors and made 'tiny cuts' to make judge nan reptile wouldn't beryllium injured.

The joined mates managed to get nan rattlesnake retired successful 5 minutes.

The animal was exhausted, but seemingly uninjured.

Agnello transported nan rattlesnake backmost to its 'home range,' released into what Rattlesnake Solutions wrote was a 'selected microhabitat.'

'While I was there, I saw different rattlesnake coiled up not 5 feet away, truthful I knew I was successful a bully spot,' he told nan Miami Herald.

Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes predominant nan Phoenix area, and they are nan largest rattlesnakes successful Arizona.

The slithery reptiles tin unrecorded for complete 20 years and usually turn to beryllium 4 to six feet long.

It usually takes respective years for nan rattlesnakes to beryllium that long, and they are only astir 10 to 12 inches agelong erstwhile born.

A communal method of identifying a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake is by looking astatine nan banding connected its tale, according to Rattlesnake Solutions.

These reptiles tin beryllium highly vulnerable and unafraid to onslaught erstwhile emotion threatened.

Because of this, experts, including those astatine Rattlesnake Solutions, counsel individuals not to attack a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake.