{"id":110879,"date":"2025-08-01T18:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/110879\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T18:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:03:22","slug":"native-new-york-rattler-rescued-in-nearby-county-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/110879\/","title":{"rendered":"Native New York Rattler Rescued in Nearby County | Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Native New York Rattler Rescued in Nearby County\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/688cf0fe6a0a9.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Provided Photo Courtesy of\u00a0NYSDEC<\/p>\n<p>HANCOCK, N.Y. &#8212; If you believe that New York is free of venomous snakes, think again. A rattler native to the State was rescued in a neighboring county.<\/p>\n<p>The Empire State is home to copperheads, timber rattlesnakes and eastern massasauga rattlesnakes.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few days ago, one was discovered trapped in a garage in the Town of Hancock in Delaware County.<\/p>\n<p>A New York State Department of Environmental Conservation officer responded to the July 25 call.<\/p>\n<p>The officer arrived to find the snake entangled in black mesh netting, hanging from the garage wall.<\/p>\n<p>The officer carefully removed the snake, freed it from the mesh and released it unharmed back into the wild, away from the house.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Timber rattlesnakes are venomous pit vipers, native to New York State. These snakes are generally found in small, localized areas and are considered a threatened species protected by State law. Timber rattlesnakes seldom display aggression unless in defense. The public is reminded to leave snakes alone, observe them from a safe distance, and call ECOs if they need a snake removed,&#8221; according to State DEC.<\/p>\n<p>For more NEWSChannel 2 coverage of the venomous snakes that can be found in the State, click on the linked story below.<\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wktv.com\/news\/local\/new-york-has-venomous-snakes-meet-the-3-species-you-should-know-about\/article_63e8cebb-de96-4598-bdc5-c7322de19475.html\" class=\"tnt-asset-link\" aria-label=\"New York Has Venomous Snakes? Meet the 3 Species You Should Know About\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"New York Has Venomous Snakes? Meet the 3 Species You Should Know About\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><br \/>\n                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/682f421ed0788.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"tnt-summary\">The law enforcement division of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recently received a call regarding one of the State\u2019s venomous snakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Provided Photo Courtesy of\u00a0NYSDEC HANCOCK, N.Y. &#8212; If you believe that New York is free of venomous snakes,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":110880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[3184,5229,15968,7282,405,403,70454,70453,5226,5225,5228,5227,63844,4531,15087,70452,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-110879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-snakes","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-dec","11":"tag-delaware-county","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-rattlesnake","15":"tag-new-york-snakes","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-nys-dec","21":"tag-officer","22":"tag-rattlesnake","23":"tag-snakes-in-new-york","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114954830081002096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}