A man from Texas found "some" rattlesnakes under his house. Watch a snake hunter remove 45.

In a Facebook video released March 17, a company specializing in the elimination of snakes showed the extraction of 45 rattlesnakes under the house of a man in Abilene, Texas (Video: Nathan Hawkin / Big Country Snake Removal)

Nathan Hawkins slipped into the dark mezzanine of a North Texas home, armed only with a flashlight, a pair of tweezers to capture snakes and the camera of a mobile phone.

Crotales – more precisely West Diamond– We could see them everywhere, hidden in cracks in the upper part and sliding on the ground. Hawkins will stretch, carefully retaining one after the other their long thin bodies making their musical tails shake, then dragging them.

"There are snakes everywhere," said Hawkins, owner of the snake removal company. Big Country Snake Removal in a video posted Sunday on Facebook.

The recording shows a den of rattlesnakes under a house on the outskirts of Abilene, less than three hundred kilometers west of the Dallas-Forth Worth area. Hawkins later explained that during winter, these common creatures often gather in warm places and emerge in the spring to eat and reproduce.

"All right guys, we are making arrangements to start removing them," he said in the video. "There are some. we see about 30 or probably 40, and everywhere you look, you see another one. "

Hawkins, 35, said in his article on Facebook that his company, specializing in eviction of snakes, in inspections and education, received a call from the homeowner last week, in which he said he had crawled under his house to adjust the cable TV and found "some snakes" hidden over there. When Hawkins and his partner arrived, he said, "I could see immediately that it was more than "a few".

But Hawkins, who claims to study snakes for nearly 20 years, said Wednesday in a phone interview The Washington Post that the meeting "was nothing out of the ordinary for us".

Hawkins said that he was introduced on March 13 with a t-shirt, jeans and boots and that he had gone to work, pull the rattlesnakes one by one. After the move, showed three plastic containers full of loud rattles.

"Honestly, it was just another day" he said The Washington Post, adding that the largest amount that he extracted from a person's house was 88 snakes.

Hawkins explained that he moved rattlesnakes at the ranches where you have permission to release them "far from people, far from cattle."

Western diamond factories, which can measure up to 1.80 meters and live more than 20 years, are one of the most common rattlesnakes Southwest, according to a fact sheet from National Parks Service (National Parks Service). The western adamantines "use poison to immobilize their prey They can include birds, reptiles and small mammals "but they also bite humans – more than any other rattlesnake, the NPS said.

Hawkins said that snakes had bitten him a thousand times, but only seven were toxic and never at work.

Hawkins said that when they annoy the rattlesnakes, they are dangerous but no more dangerous than humanshe added, laughing.

"They really they are not so crazy or so bad as people think, "he said, adding that rattlesnakes" just want to be left alone ".