Rattlesnakes

Interesting topic here that I have been thinking about for some time.  Due to my job I can only camp for longer periods in spring and fall but when retirement comes at the end of next year I may get to camp in the pod for a longer stretch of time in the summer, a first.  Anyway I digress, we have had issues with insects like mosquitoes, black flies and the like get into our 177 during the night and after a couple miserable nights found out they were entering via the slide underneath where there is a good 1/2 to 3/4 inch gap between the rubber and the slide.  The only way I could fix this was to stick an old undershirt in that area to keep the critters out and by doing this we have been quite successful and bug free.  Yet if I don't do that it would seem like there is plenty of room for a snake to slither in, if the opportunity presented itself.  What do you all think?

 Fred, YOU KILL ME!!!

Where we live, even though it's rattlesnake country, I think I'd worry more about black widows and scorpions.  When the pod is sitting in its parking place being left nice and quiet, that's when the black widows and scorpions can take up residence in the nooks and crannies where you stick your hand w/o looking.  

Ron, not to worry there are plenty of black widows in the houses of CA too.  The last black widow I found in my house (30 mi from CA +/-) had taken up residence under my dishwasher in the kitchen.  .... she said she was from Creston, CA. 😉