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Problem:As the man reached for the snake with a grabber tool, it appeared the snake began to slither away but eventually turns in an apparent attempt to strike at him. (Source: Kerry Forbus) 
  
 An expert is weighing in on a video that’s spreading quickly around social media that shows a snake appearing to strike a man about an hour after that man shot off its head. 
  
 “I shot the snake. I just left it laying there for 45 minutes to an hour and I continued doing what I was doing,” Billy Forbus said he was working in his garden when he spotted the rattlesnake. When his work was done, he put it in the bed of his truck and drove it a few miles to show it off to his dad and brother. 
  
 “I just had this little ole set of grabbers here, and he was laying in here in the bed…I grabbed him and pulled him back towards me over there, well when he come, he come up level with this bed and he knocked these back down into the bed of the truck. We pretty much decided to just to leave him alone after that,” said Forbus. “That thing had no head, and anywhere I walked around this truck and touched him, he knew where I was coming from.” 
  
 That's exactly what was happening, according to the Alabama Wildlife Federation's snake expert. 
  
 “There's no brain, so it's reflex,” explained Tyler Harris, Animal Care Coordinator for the Alabama Wildlife Federation. She says snakes don't require the same elements to stay alive that humans need, so a snake's death doesn't mirror ours either. 
  
 “It comes down to them being cold-blooded, and not depending on oxygen and blood pressure very much for their responses.” Harris continued, “they don't really need that much oxygen to begin with. so that energy can stay and travel and go a lot slower and longer in them than it would us.” 
  
 For Forbus, the experience may have changed his perspective slightly, but not completely. “Pay close attention to what you're dealing with,” he warns now, but would probably do the same thing if he had it to do over again. “I'm not a snake fan to start with. the best snake is a dead snake” 
  
 Harris, of course, feels just the opposite. “If you do encounter one, it is startling, but it's ultimately up to you to turn around and go the other way,” she advises. “They are scared of you. you're a threat, you're not food, you're a threat. You're big, you have arms, legs, you have a voice. You're the one that can make the decision to walk away from the situation.” 
  
 Harris recommends using a broomstick to rustle the bushes if you see a snake, that will scare it away, or even use a hose and light stream of water. And the best thing she says we should all do is learn about the venomous snakes in our area. Three live in this tri-county area - the cotton-mouth, copper head, and timber rattlesnake. 
  
 Snakes do perform some useful tasks. They help with rodent control, and a rattlesnake can kill 2500-4500 ticks per year! 
  
 Copyright 2018 WSFA 12 News. All rights reserved. ||||| A Texas man is recovering in hospital after a near-death experience with a rattlesnake — that was decapitated. 
  
 On May 27, Jeremy Sutcliffe and his wife Jennifer were doing yard work at their home near Lake Corpus Christi in southern Texas. Jennifer said she was pulling weeds in her garden when she came across a four-foot western diamondback rattlesnake hiding in the flowers. 
  
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 She screamed and Jeremy, who was mowing the lawn, ran over to investigate. 
  
 “My husband came over and grabbed a shovel and cut off the head,” Jennifer said. “We have very small dogs and I have a grandchild who was luckily not there at the time.” 
  
 Around 10 minutes later, Jeremy went to pick up the snake’s remains to dispose of them, and that’s when — unexpectedly — the reptile bit him. 
  
 “The head actually turned around and grabbed onto his hand. He had to rip the snake’s head off,” Jennifer said.” “He got all of the snake’s venom in the bite.” 
  
 A snake can still bite and release venom for up to several hours after it has been decapitated. 
  
 WARNING: Disturbing image below. Picture of Jeremy’s hand after the snakebite. 
  
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 Jennifer immediately got Jeremy into the car and called 911 to figure out what local hospital had antivenom. But after driving for two miles, she said her husband began to lose consciousness, lost his vision and started to have mini seizures. 
  
 He was eventually airlifted to Christus Spohn Shoreline Hospital, she said. 
  
 The hospital staff had to mix the antivenom, but Jennifer said in the meantime, her husband’s body was shutting down. 
  
 “They were loading him with heavy amounts of fluids and his blood pressure bottoming out,” she said. “His body was going into septic shock, his organs were shutting down, and he was bleeding internally.” 
  
 Jeremy was then put into an induced coma and placed on a ventilator. 
  
 The doctors gave him the needed 26 doses of antivenom, whereas a normal patient gets two to four doses. 
  
 Jeremy came out of his coma May 31 and is now in stable condition, Jennifer said, but he still has a long recovery ahead. Jeremy is suffering from acute renal failure that requires dialysis and is receiving aggressive wound care to his hand. 
  
 Jennifer has set up a GoFundMe to help with the medical bills. 
  
 “He’s thankful to be alive; it was very scary,” she said, adding that she hopes what happened can act as a cautionary tale for those who encounter rattlesnakes. ||||| Photo: David McNew (Getty) 
  
 A Texas man thought he had bested a rattlesnake by decapitating it, but when he tried to pick up the slain serpent’s head, it bit him and released a potentially fatal dose of venom into his body. 
  
 His wife Jennifer Sutcliffe told local news station KIIITV that doctors said he might not survive, but he is now in recovery, thanks to 26 vials of antivenom. Trauma surgeon Michael Halpert told the news outlet the man’s kidney function is weak, but he is stable. 
  
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 The man was reportedly doing yard work on Memorial Day when he saw the four-foot rattlesnake and used a shovel to behead it. When it bit him, his wife tried to drive him to the hospital, but he began having seizures in the car. She met an ambulance, and then an emergency helicopter rushed him to the hospital. 
  
 “That’s kind of a classic mistake. People don’t realize that reptiles and mammals are wired differently,” Leslie Boyer, antivenom doctor and founding Director of the University of Arizona VIPER Institute, told Gizmodo. “The head end of a cut-up rattlesnake can continue to function, including the venom glands, for a long time afterward and, in fact, the other half continues to work. It’ll rise and rattle.” 
  
 As far as how long, she couldn’t say for sure. Boyer has heard of snakes moving 12 hours after being cut in two. And she’s even consulted on a case where someone was envenomated by a mummified snake head years after the reptile died. 
  
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 According to Boyer, cutting up a snake is one of the worst ways to handle the situation. “It’s cruel to the animal and it leaves you with a smaller piece that’s venomous to pick up,” she said. It’s better to just back away at least two steps, and call an expert to remove it. Or move it yourself. She would only advise killing it if it’s in a confined space and is an immediate threat. 
  
 Early articles on the Texas incident suggested that the snake released more venom than it would have if it were still alive. But Boyer said that doesn’t seem to be the case, since 26 vials of anti-venom is just slightly more than the average amount needed to save the victim of a rattlesnake bite. 
  
 Boyer said there aren’t good statistics about snake bites in the U.S., but most experts say that there are a few thousand snake bites a year resulting in around a dozen deaths. 
  
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 “As far as a lesson, if a snake chomping you post-mortem is better or worse: It’s on the same order as a live snake,” Boyer said. “So dead or alive, if the venom glands are still in the part with the fangs, it can still empty the venom glands through the fangs.” 
  
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Solution:
A rattlesnake had its head shot off only to go after its executioner an hour later, as seen in a wild video making the rounds on social media. Billy Forbus of Montgomery, Ala., tells WSFA he shot the snake, separating its head from the body, after finding it in his garden, then put the body in his truck bed. But when he returned an hour later with a grabber tool, hoping to show the reptile to his dad and brother, he found the snake was acting far from dead. The video shows it slithering away before suddenly striking out, knocking the tool out of Forbus' hand. "We pretty much decided to just to leave him alone after that," Forbus says. "That thing had no head, and anywhere I walked around this truck and touched him, he knew where I was coming from." Forbus should perhaps consider himself lucky. Last month, a Texas man needed 26 doses of antivenom, and still nearly died, after he was bit by the head of a rattlesnake he'd decapitated with a shovel, per Global News. This sort of thing actually happens pretty often as snakes retain their bite reflexes hours after death, per National Geographic. "It comes down to them being cold-blooded," a wildlife expert tells WSFA. "They don't really need that much oxygen to begin with so that energy can stay … longer in them than it would us." That applies to a snake's venom glands, as well as the rest of its body, even when decapitated. "The other half continues to work. It'll rise and rattle" a researcher tells Gizmodo, explaining Forbus' experience. (This snake "hit the jackpot" with its venom.)