{"id":24929,"date":"2019-06-06T10:12:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T16:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=366952"},"modified":"2019-06-06T10:12:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T16:12:14","slug":"rattlesnakes-in-colorado-two-dogs-have-already-been-bitten-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/rattlesnakes-in-colorado-two-dogs-have-already-been-bitten-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Rattlesnakes in Colorado? Two dogs have already been bitten in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A large prairie rattlesnake assumes it\u2019s defensive position.<\/strong>
Photo by Kirk W. Davidson\/Special to The Denver Post<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Rattlesnake season has arrived along the Front Range with two rattlers striking dogs over the weekend in Jefferson County Open Space areas and another pit viper frightening hikers at Mount Falcon Park on Saturday, coiled and ready to strike at the edge of a trail.<\/p>\n

The remains of another snake was seen on a highway near Mount Falcon.<\/p>\n

\u201cSnakes are just looking for a warm place to be this cool spring,\u201d said Mary Ann Bonnell, visitor services manager for Jeffco Open Space, who has been studying rattlesnakes for two decades. \u201cAnd with warmer temperatures, we\u2019re starting to see them come out. We\u2019re starting to see them seek good basking spots, and that just happens to be where we\u2019re walking and driving. It\u2019s a really good time to be paying attention and know you may encounter a rattlesnake, a bull snake, a garter snake on a sunny, exposed area.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n

The rattler on the trail at Mount Falcon spent at least 30 minutes at the edge of the trail, coiled and shaking its rattler. Some hikers said it seemed injured, but Bonnell said it might simply have been holding its ground because it was agitated.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf people try to poke at it with a walking stick or throw rocks or spray water on it, sometimes they will coil and they\u2019re not going to move,\u201d Bonnell said. \u201cThey get into a defensive position and they\u2019re not necessarily going to vacate at that point. They\u2019ve sort of decided, \u2018This is a dangerous situation, I\u2019m going to get ready to strike and hold my ground.\u2019 If somebody sees a snake and they immediately give it space and don\u2019t do things to harass it like throw rocks or prod at it, a lot of times that snake will leave the area and not take up that defensive posture of sitting right next to the trail.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more via The Denver Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A large prairie rattlesnake assumes it\u2019s defensive position.Photo by Kirk W. Davidson\/Special to The Denver Post Rattlesnake season has arrived along the Front Range with two rattlers striking dogs over the weekend in Jefferson County Open Space areas and another pit viper frightening hikers at Mount Falcon Park on Saturday, coiled and ready to strike […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 17:31:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}