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To: pz who wrote (13378)	4/5/1998 10:27:00 PM
From: Jane Hafker	Respond to of 39621

Well, figure this out. The only rattlers I personally saw was one pretty little 2 footer, who was laying straight on a little ledge just looking at me, as we were oowing and aaahing over how pretty she was. Weird, no? True story. She was a pretty little snake and I was just dumbfounded. Another one, my boyfriend was trying to catch with a stick to sell for its pelt and the snake was running away from him down the pavement as fast as it could wiggle. Go figure. THEN. j Here's the snake story I can hardly believe. At a corporation in the desert area a disgruntled employee, I think, dumped a rattler right outside corporate lobby. I was on the corporate phone relief that day--15 in the morning, lunch, and 15 minutes afternoon. So the day I'm there we're talking about "Talley" the corporate cat, sitting by the door batting at the bushes for hours. She was just sitting there lifting her arm and batting at something very casually. It was a rattler, and a big one. I came out just as the crowd had gathered and everyone was really upset, and the maintenance guys came charging in with a shovel to de-head it and I JUMPED into action. I really yelled at them, as they were my friends and I knew they would listen to reason, that if the snake was to gentle it just sat there all morning and let the cat slap it, nobody was going to kill it. So they grudgingly sacked it up to drive it down range a few miles, muttering that "it would just come back". And I'm going, "Oh Yeah! I'm sure it's going to come right back as fast as it can." So, that was my rattlesnake experience. But I've never stepped on one either. But it was all fun. The other big excitement was a large gila monster waddling across the road. Several of us on our way to work were out of the cars and bending over it, and it was looking up at us like, "get real." It was very pretty too. They hardly move.