North Texas Snakes Active & Dangerous

(CBS 11 News) FORT WORTH Venomous snakes can be found all over North Texas, not just in wooded areas. Despite our recent cold snap, those potentially dangerous snakes are still active.

In the past two months, four people have been bitten by snakes.

"It was scary -- at first -- to pick it up," said Travis Tate about a rattlesnake head he keeps as a souvenir. "You still have those things where maybe it'll still attack."

Tate has reason to be a little jumpy. The head used to be attached to a rattlesnake that bit him Labor Day weekend.

"It's pretty instant pain," he said about the bite. "It's burning and on fire and getting smashed by a hammer."

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