I was cleaning my pool yesterday morning and there was a baby Eastern Diamondback rattler in there just floating around. I went to dip him out with the net and he actually tried to coil up on top of the water and strike the net! He was quite aggressive. Finally scooped him up and dumped him out in the woods away from the house.
Then last night I was doing some beadwork and watching an animal planet show called 'I Was Prey' and one of the episodes was a guy who partially beheaded a Western Diamondback and got bitten 3 times when he tried to pick it up and almost died. Sheesh.
