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Message: <blockquote data-quote="( deleted account )" data-source="post: 222390" data-attributes="member: 5993">According to the avoidance guy in Az, you are supposed to be licensed by the Feds to transport vendemos snakes across state lines, or something like that.  He had done over 2000 dogs over the years, plus a lot of Gilda monster training. He gave a lecture on the biology and lifestyle of diamondbacks, very interesting talk, including how to and how not to defang rattlers carefully, and so they didn’t grow their fangs back, how to move them, kill them humanely on your lawn ( common in Az) He would use defanged diamondbacks and put them here and there where they couldn’t escape, thendo the avoidance thing.the final exam was to take your dog for a walk, while he’d sneak a snake under your pickup, then walk your dog back downwind to the pickup! Wow!  Those dogs would screech to a stop in a hurry and turn on their snake body language.   He said for thorough training you had to make sure the dog saw the snake and moving tail, heard the snake buzz, and smelled the snake, all senses, or the avaidance was less effective.  He also used diamondbacks as from a training view they seemed about as generic as possible. He thought some species smelled and affected dogs differently.  Also, he said using another snake species, garter, bull, etc. Was worthless, which I believe. My dog absolutely avoids all rattlers, but readily attacks or plays with a bull or garter snake.  Shakes them and would probably kill them.  She doesn’t treat any snake as a rattler. You should start avoidance, MSA!  Lots of business for a part time/ weekend business.  I keep planning to try it with skunk skin/ scent when I get one of those round tuits!</blockquote>

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