Vanity Help identify this snake found in my bedroom! Please!!

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

light brown/grey snake, no obviously pointed head, skinny about 10-12 inches long, looks like a baby

how can i identify this quickly before I figure out what to do with it.

[Vermont Lt]

OK...you've been sitting here with a snake under your foot for about 35 minutes?

You HAVE to be a woman. No man I know would have the patience to sit that still for that long...unless its dinner with a really, really pretty girl.

Kill 'em. We wont tell the snake lovers.

I hear they taste like chicken.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

sorry...stripes are yellow, belly itself is dark brown

[RedBloodedAmerican]

True in almost all cases, but a coral snake doesnt have a distinct triangular head. But this on ehere it probably a garter or rat snake. I would feed it to a cat.

[Teacher317]

I love bull snakes. I had a great one as a kid. Thanks for the reminder. I forgot they were NM residents, too.

[pubmom]

Here's a helpful site:

Pennsylvania Herpetelogical Atlas Amphibian and Reptile Identification Helper

[peedee]

Come on don't be a sheila. Just take s a broom handle a pick em up (lots of time they will wrap themselves around it, makes em easy to handle) Take him outside a let em free. Peice of cake.

Oh and good luck :)

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Yes. It would have a shell at the tip of the tail.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

snake is in bathtub, dropped big dictionary on tail and got coffeecan to put it in. didn't make it outside butis now in bathtub

[tubebender]

"light brown/grey snake, no obviously pointed head, skinny about 10-12 inches long, looks like a baby"

Shucks ma'am out here in the North West we call that "bait"...

[Vermont Lt]

Also, watch out. There are certain SW brands of garter snakes that can eat through shoes.

Not.

Sorry, I couldnt resist.

[tangerine]

I saw my big black and white tom cat dragging what I thought was a length of garden hose up the driveway one day. I watched, wondering why he'd do that since he'd never played with anything like that before. When he got closer, I saw he wasm dragging a green garden snake about two feet longer than both he and his tail.

The snake was still very much alive and undamaged so I thanked him for it, put it back in the brush and never saw it again.

[Johnny Shear]

Always wondered over threads like this, by the way - during these times of extreme stress, why do some people jump on the computer?....and then NOT go to Google to try and ID the problem?

Maybe not under "Extreme stress" (In which case I would probably shoot and run and then surf LATER anyway), but I often use Free Republic as my main source for information.

Call me lazy but it works damned well.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Would you please kill it already?!

[JennysCool]

Cool! How's it swimmin' with a dictionary-d tail? Good going!

[revtown]

Its obviously a grey backed brown darter snake.
Its extremely rare and endangered.
Your home is now environmentally protected from occupation.
Move out now.

[JennysCool]

Hmm...This could be one of those crises where you're better off NOT getting into the shower.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

need to go figure now what to do with it, but is safely in tub, cat looking in and now i feel like im going to be sick

[fiftymegaton]

The last one that I remember seeing here was about 3 or 4 feet long and had a pear shaped head. I was hitting it with a stick and it would stand its head up like a cobra and bite at the stick. At the time I didnt know what kind of snake it was until my dad came out and told me that it was a copperhead. I also remember that the scales on the sides of its face stuck out when it hissed. Then I think my dad cut its head off with a shovel.

[Teacher317]

OOh! Any chance it is an endangered Queensnake? Yellow and brown belly, mostly flat colored... but not really native to NM.

[Vermont Lt]

Turn on the water. See if its a water snake.