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.

[Embedded Freeper]

Garter snakes hold up womens nylons?
That is frightening.

[rwfromkansas]

Call the cops or animal control if you don't know what it is.

They will take care of it (hopefully not kill it unless it is poisonous).

[VRWCmember]

does a baby rattler make rattle noise?

If it is designed well, it should. But not too loud so as not to frighten the baby.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

You know, we have not found any more snakes in the house, nor were we were able to determine with 100% certainty where that snake actually came from...although I have a fairly good guess.

My husband had taken the children camping that weekend. When this snake business, and hence my frantic post, was written they had been back home for just a couple of hours.

We finally figured that when the kids were rolling sleeping bags, folding blankets and packing their backpacks to come home, the little nightmare was accidently rolled, folded or packed up, and came home with everything else.

Final edit for posterity-
21 October 2008
5:00am

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