Let me also add.......Keeping hots should not be something one does to "impress" their friends, or to be "cool". These animals are dangerous, and so is that mindset.........I kept them and will keep them again just for the love of the animals......there's nothing more beautiful to me than a Mojave rattlesnake......and VERY few people even knew I kept hots......it's legal here, but it's not my style to go advertise it. It was FOR ME, not for anyone else.