WE lived in Sweetwater Texas for the first 14 years we were married - they have the World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup each year (2nd weekend in March! lol) - the year I was dating my Marine I drove out to see that Roundup and witnessed the love of my life in a huge vat surrounded by about 1500 snakes all slithering and wet from venon (they do bite each other) - he was actually in there keeping them stirred up so they wouldn't all pile up and suffocate the ones on the bottom - I remember driving back to my hometown and everywhere I looked I "saw" snakes.....lol
Snakes smell AWFUL when you get a bunch of them together - !