Venomous snakes

I'll have to try to remember this if I ever encounter a rattlesnake. I seem to remember encountering one when I was a kid when we were camping in Penticton. Scared the life out of me.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — In a Phoenix-area venomous snake training course, the first thing students learn is that basically everything they thought they knew about rattlesnakes is a myth. For starters, rattlesnakes aren't aggressive. They don't rattle to warn that they're about to strike. And they definitely don't chase people. "They're not out to get us," Cale Morris of the Phoenix Herpetological Sanctuary told the class Tuesday. The sanctuary holds the class for the public and businesses in the spring, as rattlesnakes wake up from their winter-long naps, known in the reptile kingdom as brumation.