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Found in nursing home

snakemom1961

snakemom1961

Spring is here!
My daughter works in a nursing home as a house keeper. This morning someone found a snake inside and was going to kill it. My daughter talked them into letting her take it home and release it. So, she called home and had her sister come pick it up.

I snapped a couple of pics before we released it in a field near our apartment.

It appears to be a northern brown snake. I looked it up on our DNR site and it's almost identical to the one in the pic and also has the markings described for that snake.
The pics aren't the greatest, but were the best I could do with my point and shoot. Hope you enjoy.
 
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Thanks everyone. I was glad my daughter was able to get it before someone there killed it.

Nanci, Today is in the low 60's, but we have already have a couple of heavy freezes and I too was surprised it was still out and about. I'm hoping it will be able to find a burrow under some brush in the next day or so and start brumating for the upcoming winter.
 
That is a Northern Brown Snake. I won't get into scientific names and stuff. They are small and eat worms.
 
GREAT SAVE!!! It is awesome that they let her catch it so it could be transplanted into a nice safe area. Kudos to both of you!

Why is it that the first inkling on the mind of non-snake-people is "KILL IT!" :uhoh: I just don't understand it... :nope:
 
How cool! I'm so glad your daughter rescued the gentle creature. I wish everyone whose first thought is "Kill the snake!" would take a good hard look at the photos in this thread. That's an honest-to-goodness wild animal resting calmly in a human's hands. Anyone want to try that with a more "popular" animal, say a mammal? The average backyard squirrel would do far more damage than would most snakes.
 
I don't have a clue as to why it is most non snake people are so willing to want to kill snakes. I know my brother in law and nephew are the same way. Makes me sick. I'm glad my daughter was there when they found the snake. Apparently it was near the kitchen and the staff was pretty freaked out by it and needed to get it out of sight of the residences real fast. They didn't just want to let it out near the home because they were afraid it would make it's way back in again, so they didn't think they had any other alternative I guess.
I just hope it'll be alright since we are suppose to be cooling off up here big time. Only suppose to be in the low to mid 40's by tomorrow after highs in the mid 60's yesterday when we released it.
 
I imagine that the snake is snuggled in somewhere, keeping warm enough and waiting for a sunny day. Nature is more resilient than we often believe. Don't you love a happy ending?
 
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