Relocating a rattlesnake

Tonight I was talking with my son Jon on the phone. He was outside his house in New Mexico walking their horse named Pony. A five foot long rattlesnake did not like the horse, and began to rattle just a few feet away. Jon called his mother, who placed a barrel over the rattlesnake and put a board on top, then lifted the barrel onto the back of the pickup truck and headed down the remote country road to relocate the critter. Let's hope there are no neighboring ranchers who have earned bad karma.