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.

[MissAmericanPie]

I had this same thing happen, only the snake was white and looked like it had black lace running down it's back, it kept striking at my broom, which really didn't mean he was poison. When animal control arrived they didn't know what kind it was and felt it had escaped from a collector an was possibly poisonous because white snakes usually are. So they killed it.

I wouldn't touch it if I were you, just in case.

[CWRWinger]

After you get done wasting the snake, discard it far, far away, because they stink dead.

[Lower55]

The way mom (she's 83) taught us to handle them is to....
find a strong stick with a forked end. Put the snake on soft ground. Then gently place the fork of the stick behind the head of the snake. Then push him into the gound....

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

ok...problem is im here alone and snake is under my foot. ergo-cant get a trash can, a pair of tongs or the damn thing outside. cats are watching it with wide eyes...lol

[LowOiL]

If it makes a sound like "OWKkkk" when you poke it, kill it. If it sounds like "tttttPaine" shoot it twice.

Just some friendly freeper help...

Really.

[Dog Gone]

It's definitely a cobra.

If you find one, there are at least 100 others in the dryer, dishwasher, under your bed, and even in your toilet.

Your only hope requires baskets and flutes.

[hellinahandcart]

what do u mean more? more snakes could be around here?

I think he's trying to tease you by hinting about those legendary "balls of snakes"; think "True Grit" and "Lonesome Dove".

[Bahbah]

LOL, Sunflower, you sound about as calm as I would be if I found a snake in my house. I once found a copperhead sleeping in my lawnmower and levitated 10 feet in the air. Did it in with a huge mallet.

[pa_dweller]

Maybe this'll help.

Recognizing Poisonous Snakes in New Mexico

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Well then just crush it and get rid of it

[lsee]

Here's another site to try Arizona Herpetological association

Your cooperative extension office is a wonderful source of information, also. Check this out for answers to all your questions CAHE County Answer People

[tangerine]

If you have a cat, the cat may have brought the snake in the house. My cats do.

[discostu]

Best thing to do is just find a way to coax him outside (unless you don't mind a little blood and are truly afraid it could be poisonous, then kill the beast). Then keep your eye out for more. If you see more call an exterminator. If you can keep it in something for a while then you could research it. If you're lucky it's a bull snake, they eat other snakes (or at least scare the hell out of them, I know a guy that used a bull snake to clear the rattle snakes out of his IBM floor).

I know how you feel though, I hate snakes. I can handle just about any creepy crawly, except snakes.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Let the cats play with it for a while... it'll either get eaten (after a fashion) or leave :0)

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

THese are also garter snakes

[frodolives]

Boy, I sure could use a snake in MY bedroom 10-12 inches long. Attached to Mr. Frodolives....

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

i googled it.

no pic of the particular snake under my foot.

located in NM

not a diamond back as far as i can tell

Other then that im lost

[Senator Pardek]

Kudos to all of you. The title of this thread has more material in it than Nadler's undershirt - yet you've all held off (some have even been helpful).

[pabianice]

Uh.....RUN!!!

[lsee]

Chuckle!!!