Last summer in S. Arizona I had a stray cat show up with a bunch of kittens. The kittens started playing around under my mobile home and rattlesnakes began crawling out all over. The first night it began I heard the dogs baying up something in the yard, ran out in my underwear and they were in a semi-circle around it barking, I grabbed a shovel and wacked it. Went to bed and 4 hours later I heard the dogs again, ran out with a flashlight and another big Mojave was slithering towards a barrel and my stag was trying to grab it's tail. I wacked that one. Next night I heard the dogs again, ran out and there was another big Mojave between the dog houses, I yanked a house to the side and chopped the snake. Then the next day the dogs started fussing again and I killed one under the swamp cooler. Few days later the, same scenario, I ran outside and the dogs had killed a diamondback, somehow they didn't get bit even though I could see blood on the Airedales side where he had slung it from side to side and it had whipped against him. Next day, believe it or not, the 3 month old kittens killed a small(about a foot long) diamondback.Another rattler was buzzing under my porch, nuthin I could do. This is 7 rattlers in 4-5 day period, three of them large, fat Mojaves(20 times the toxicity). I swear it's all true and was a big factor in why I'm no longer living there. Mike B.