When I was young, my father got bitten by a rattlesnake in the Catskills. After a week of intense pain and suffering, the snake died.

I have only seen one rattlesnake in Colorado. It bit a friend's Lab. Its head swelled up for a day and then it was fine. The vet they found wouldn't treat it without a dead snake as the wrong anti-venom could kill it.

Supposedly, they hang out in the desert near a local golf course, so I don't go there in the summer.