Dogs are always leaving their toys laying around the house, patio, and yard. Sometimes you just have to pick up after them as if they were teenagers. This unsuspecting Calabasas California woman thinks she is stooping down to pick up an errant dog toy.

Carla Rosso got the shock of her life when she realized that thing in her hand was alive. That's because that the thing in her hand was actually a baby rattlesnake. Rosso's home security camera captured the entire episode as it unfolded.

The above normal temperatures in the region had caused the snake to seek a cooler place to chill out.  I can't say that wouldn't be doing the same kind of "getaway snake" dance that she did.

I can't say that wouldn't be doing the same kind of "getaway snake" dance that she did. It's like when you walk into a spider web and suddenly become a ninja. Carla and her husband called the local fire department and they removed the snake.

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