Two environmental conservation officers were in the right place at the right time to catch a rattlesnake at a hotel.

The officers were attending a training course in Lake George on the safe handling of rattlesnakes, when they received a call that a snake had gotten into the common area of a hotel on the lake, according to the Department of Environmental Conservation.

The officers responded, caught the young timber rattlesnake and relocated it into the wild.

Lake George and the South Bay area on Lake Champlain have a large breeding population of timber rattlesnakes.