Elizabeth Hayes McGraw says as she was greeted by the family dog out of the corner of her eye she saw a 4-foot long timber rattlesnake.McGraw tells The Berkshire Eagle she screamed, grabbed the dog, jumped inside and called police.
She sent a picture to the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife district office in Dalton, which confirmed it was a poisonous rattlesnake.
The snakes are classified as endangered in Massachusetts and sightings are extremely rare.
Tom Tyning, a professor at Berkshire Community College, who's been studying rattlesnakes in the Berkshires for more than 20 years, returned the snake the wild.
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