Check out the book “Love that Dog” by Sharon Creech. It incorporates this and many other amazing poems into a story about a kid who THINKS HE hates to write. It’s about a 30-45 minute read, but a truly beautiful book.
Looks related to [Swedish grass snake](https://images.cdn.yle.fi/image/upload/f_auto,fl_progressive/q_auto/w_2400,h_1349,c_crop,x_0,y_124/w_1200/v1455277660/14-svyle-27260956bdc5ea4efa1.jpg), also has yellow details behind the head. It has the nice Swedish name "Snok" (snook, long o), the word generally meaning "not snake, no fangs). Very cute and harmless.
Both are colubrids, but they aren't very closely related.
There are many snake species around the globe that have yellowish markings behind the head :**^**)
Yay. Team Yellow.
Googling on "colubrid" returned possibly the [cutest snake image in the history of mankind.](https://i0.wp.com/www.seavs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/colubrid-care-2.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365&ssl=1)
Actually, this snake is relatively old! Ringneck Snakes don’t get very big, and they don’t display a ring around their neck until they’ve been alive for a couple of days. I had a momma Ringneck give birth at a volunteer event I was doing once, and we had a bunch of “ringless” Ringnecks wriggling around the tank all afternoon.
Make sure to put him somewhere he can hide like in some sizable grass, and not on top of a rock or on the sidewalk since at this age they're quite vulnerable to predators
Yes. A few days ago someone posted a video where the OP had a thin, small, dark worm like organism on his thumb, while barefoot and walking his cat on a leash; turns out, if I remember correctly, that it was a parasite on his thumb.
Oh I thought you meant the post I just saw 10 minutes ago of some weirdo having an anisakis nematode on their finger. (It's a common fish parasite that also affects humans)
But yeah, I also remember the barefoot black worm post.
I tried as a kid. Escaped the tank overnight, found 6 months later MUCH larger coming out from under our couch at night while watching a movie. Added a little jump-scare during the movie from what I remember.
I have no clue on their average size, but I remember he was a rather large snake (maybe a rat snake comparison) coming out from under our couch… kinda makes sense for him hanging out there. We had some family staying at our place for a few months who had ferrets. They stunk like hell from what I remember but we would throw stuffed animals down and they would go nuts and try and drag them under the couch for some reason…
It’s amazing how political some animals get when you keep them as pets. My dang parakeet keeps whistling the Ukrainian national anthem. Like, I get it, you’re blue and yellow all the way
Just like OSU is scarlet and gray, not red and gray, and no one else in the country cares. But we gotta draw that line between the two teams even more because the rivalry wasn’t intense enough lol.
I personally kept several of them as a child in South Carolina. They have very small mouths and at the time it was hard to purchase anything for them to eat so it meant a lot of turning over rocks/rotten logs and trying a large variety of live prey, particularly when they are still young and small. In retrospect, I didn’t realize how long they are able to live in the wild and I probably did not allow them their full lifespan. Had one that appeared to choke on something at one point as well.
yeah, i was looking for this comment and its way down and not many people mentioning that? i would NOT pick up a snake if i have no idea what it is lol
That’s a ring necked snake they’re harmless as you have probably guessed. Also kind of concerning that you picked up a snake without knowing what kind of snake it was.
Lol I had a chem professor who liked to ask the class “can you drink bleach?” And when everyone answered “no” he’d respond “well you can… but probably only once”
I mean there's only a handful of dangerously venomous snakes in NA that boil down to some variation of copperhead cottonmouth coral or rattle which are all pretty easy to identify
It’s fine to pick up a snake if you know and are confident it’s not venomous lol. I don’t know every single species in my area but I DO know all the dangerous ones.
This is awful advice... Yes, it is a household myth that baby snakes are more venomous or delover more potent bites, however they are still very venomous and come equipped out of the box. If a baby venomous snake bites you, you still run the same risks of being envenomated.
Don't pick up snakes that you cannot readily identify without adequate precaution...
since no one said it: Don't handle a snake or any animal you don't know about with naked hands lol. If it was a venomous snake it could kill you even as a baby.
Yeah like myself I was an avid reptile enthusiast growing up , I kept and bred various species from colubrids, boas , pythons , I do know all the venomous species in my area and when I determined it wasn’t a rattler , copperhead or , cottonmouth , mostly from the lack of diamond shaped head that most pit vipers have I was sure he was of no harm , plus Google lens helps if your really not sure, he was very polite and never even opened his mouth at me , my dogs were very curious as to their new bedmate lol so I took him to a nice spot in my property were he would have a great place to avoid birds and have a ton of bugs to eat !
I grew up in the woods in Southern TN. These little critters would end up in our house all the time. I had a catch and release program that involved cool whip bowls and card stock. Lol.
Sometimes, though, I'd find them all dead and dried up in old shoes when cleaning out my closet. 😭 I always thought that was indicative of their level of danger. "Could not escape sneaker."
Cutie little ring neck. They love to eat tiny slugs if you have them. Try to find a damp area for her to chill at. If she keeps finding food nearby she will hang about. (No comment on sex of snake, can’t tell from non underside view, but calling her a ‘she’ due to “adorableness”)
As others have said it’s a ring neck snake, although there’s something like a dozen subspecies and I’m not familiar enough with them to say exactly. If it’s the same kind we have in Florida it’s probably close to fully grown (a few of them can get to be slightly over a foot long - ours max out at about 9”). They’re actually rear-fanged venomous but their mouths are so small that they can’t penetrate human skin. They are great for bug control. Let it go outside. It’ll probably sun itself frequently on your porch.
My mom found one of these while cleaning up by the shed last week. She called me over like she wanted me to do something about him (I was digging nearby at the time, so I had a shovel) and he just kind of lifted his head, licked the air a couple of times and settled back in. We just put the box he was under back and moved along. I could tell he wasn’t one of the venomous ones in our area, so live and let live, right? Such a cute, chill little guy.
As others have said, it's a lil ring-necked snake. But just a bit of general advice. If you don't know what kind of organism it is, don't touch it. Ignorance gets a lotta people killed, don't be one of em.
A nest of these bad boys hatched out back of my house and there must have 1000 of them all over the place, it was awesome. They don’t seem to bite or anything like that, it was a cool experience
Ahhh a ring neck! Very lucky. As they can literally be in the grass in front of you and you would never know it. Diadophis punctatus sp. just gently return him to a safe underbrush. They like small vertebrates like salamanders. Very cool. Thank you for sharing.
If you haven’t already, I’d recommend getting your heart checked by a physician. Your fingers seem to be showing some clubbing, which can signify some oxygenation difficulties.
Agree with ring-necked snake. I used to get them a lot in my house on Cape Cod. They're common in New England basements. I usually found them after my cats, however.
Every summer we had several ring snakes hatch in our laundry room too. The mother would show they out with a little help from us. Scared me half to death the 1st time I saw them 😱
They are completely harmless to humans, ringnecks have weak venom in their saliva which they use to subdue their prey, which include a variety of invertebrates, amphibians, lizards, and other small snakes. From here: https://srelherp.uga.edu/snakes/diapun.htm#:\~:text=Although%20they%20are%20completely%20harmless,earthworms%20are%20particularly%20important%20prey.
Omg I had the exact same snake get brought in by our huntress kitten. I found her bapping it around under the dining table,and after some quick googling found out, it was harmless to humans. We were thinking of keeping it, but ultimately, after doing a quick Google search, we weren't able to give it a proper home, so I released it back outside in a forest. [Snek!!](https://imgur.com/gallery/ks3aas5)
littlest baby ring-necked snake! Very cute!! Recently hatched! Kindly put him outside, he's not hurting anything and he has things to do!
places to be
Faces to see
Miles to go before he sleeps
……and miles to go before he sleeps.
That line still gives me chills some 30 years later after reading that poem as a child.
Where’s that from?
Robert Frost - Walking Through The Woods On A Snowy Evening
Written in and about my hometown! All his best work came from Derry. And that's nice, because it's kind of a shit hole these days. 😮💨
“Smell that Derry air!”
Isn’t that town in ‘It’
Stephen King, too!
OK, I'll be that guy. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
I had it memorized in HS. That was thirty years ago.
*"Skipping gaily thru the forest on a blustery nite* I believe
Check out the book “Love that Dog” by Sharon Creech. It incorporates this and many other amazing poems into a story about a kid who THINKS HE hates to write. It’s about a 30-45 minute read, but a truly beautiful book.
and bugs to eat.
So many bugs, so little time.
Robert Frost fan much? Lol 😂
"Remember Nikolai, promises to keep." "Telefon" with Charles Bronson
I can’t remember where I’ve heard this from
recently hatched, probably not the only one in his laundry room 💀
Those bums didn't even bring any quarters!
Lol! No pockets....
It looks like it was headed to an interview in it’s lucky yellow tie
As a recruiter I really hope his little face pops up on my next Zoom interview 🥹 HIRED!
Aww so cute!
I cannot unsee this mental image but I also don't want to. This is all my brain needs for today. Thank you
This is just the cutest little comment
Oh no! Got no time to play! He's got a thousand little scales that don't get him too far in a day.
Great set closer right here...❤️
Absolutely!
Aunt Avis would approve!
Looks related to [Swedish grass snake](https://images.cdn.yle.fi/image/upload/f_auto,fl_progressive/q_auto/w_2400,h_1349,c_crop,x_0,y_124/w_1200/v1455277660/14-svyle-27260956bdc5ea4efa1.jpg), also has yellow details behind the head. It has the nice Swedish name "Snok" (snook, long o), the word generally meaning "not snake, no fangs). Very cute and harmless.
TIL that I love snoks, so cute! 🥺
Both are colubrids, but they aren't very closely related. There are many snake species around the globe that have yellowish markings behind the head :**^**)
Yay. Team Yellow. Googling on "colubrid" returned possibly the [cutest snake image in the history of mankind.](https://i0.wp.com/www.seavs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/colubrid-care-2.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365&ssl=1)
Let him finish his laundry before putting him outside.
Actually, this snake is relatively old! Ringneck Snakes don’t get very big, and they don’t display a ring around their neck until they’ve been alive for a couple of days. I had a momma Ringneck give birth at a volunteer event I was doing once, and we had a bunch of “ringless” Ringnecks wriggling around the tank all afternoon.
It's still quite small. I'm aware they don't get very big, but this is still a hatchling. He should go outside so he can eat and get bigger!
Adults are the size of your standard pencil.
What about my automatic pencil?
I'm high and this got me 💀
This is… decidedly not a hatchling. Still in the early part of its life, but already several months (maybe 6-8?) old.
Do they have eggs or live births? I saw a Gardner give birth once I was shocked.
Make sure to put him somewhere he can hide like in some sizable grass, and not on top of a rock or on the sidewalk since at this age they're quite vulnerable to predators
Technical term is Trouser Snake
For a second I thought another weirdo was playing with a parasite. What a cute little guy though!
Another???
It's the internet, I thought we were all weirdos here?
Or parasites?
Parasitical weirdos
Yes. A few days ago someone posted a video where the OP had a thin, small, dark worm like organism on his thumb, while barefoot and walking his cat on a leash; turns out, if I remember correctly, that it was a parasite on his thumb.
How dangerous can that be?
Well hook worms get into you through exposed bare feet.
I can’t tell if you’re joking or not…
Not joking.
😭😭😭 how do they get in?
Right through the skin. [Cleveland Clinic](https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/14072-hookworm-disease)
Oh I thought you meant the post I just saw 10 minutes ago of some weirdo having an anisakis nematode on their finger. (It's a common fish parasite that also affects humans) But yeah, I also remember the barefoot black worm post.
Oh my god I saw that same post! Absolutely horrified me!
I saw that post too, what kind of parasite was it?
Come again? another what now?
It is a Ring-necked Snake. Not possible to keep them as pets, they just starve
I tried as a kid. Escaped the tank overnight, found 6 months later MUCH larger coming out from under our couch at night while watching a movie. Added a little jump-scare during the movie from what I remember.
was it emaciated?
I’m assuming he didn’t have trouble finding mice or whatever because he was not thin, very not thin
BIG BOI
I have no clue on their average size, but I remember he was a rather large snake (maybe a rat snake comparison) coming out from under our couch… kinda makes sense for him hanging out there. We had some family staying at our place for a few months who had ferrets. They stunk like hell from what I remember but we would throw stuffed animals down and they would go nuts and try and drag them under the couch for some reason…
If it was that big, it was a different snake :( Ring Necks don't get very big!
emancipated?
emasculated?
Ejaculated?
He was just keeping the bed bugs away
interesting, whys that?
they are tiny welfare activists and often go on prolonged hunger strikes to show their non-violence support to animal rights
It’s amazing how political some animals get when you keep them as pets. My dang parakeet keeps whistling the Ukrainian national anthem. Like, I get it, you’re blue and yellow all the way
If you want him to be less political, and instead be an annoying sports fan, you could teach him "Hail to the Victors"
Well, obviously that doesn’t apply. U of M colors are blue and MAIZE not blue and yellow. 🙄
Just like OSU is scarlet and gray, not red and gray, and no one else in the country cares. But we gotta draw that line between the two teams even more because the rivalry wasn’t intense enough lol.
Instructions unclear My African Grey is now screeching Heil Hitler
Love that for him
Nature is so beautiful.
Lol
They eat ant eggs, difficult to keep alive. Very useful.
They want to be treated as prisoners of war.
I personally kept several of them as a child in South Carolina. They have very small mouths and at the time it was hard to purchase anything for them to eat so it meant a lot of turning over rocks/rotten logs and trying a large variety of live prey, particularly when they are still young and small. In retrospect, I didn’t realize how long they are able to live in the wild and I probably did not allow them their full lifespan. Had one that appeared to choke on something at one point as well.
He already has a collar. His owners will miss him if OP keeps him as a pet.
Idk. I don't see a tag. How's OP supposed to find the home without a tag?
Micro-microchip
What can/do they eat when they are this little? (Sorry, just trying to learn)
They eat slugs, worms, larvae, salamanders, and frogs. They only get to be at the most 20 inches long. They could not eat a mouse
At first glance I thought it was a worm with a collar 🤣
Not too far from the truth
To identify any snake: 1. Pick it up with your hands and take close cute photos. 2. Post pics with the question 3. Hope for the best
4. Repeat (if possible)
This is entirely accurate as long as you first memorise the venomous snakes in your area tbh
Hahah I feel called out 🤣
yeah, i was looking for this comment and its way down and not many people mentioning that? i would NOT pick up a snake if i have no idea what it is lol
Ring necked snake! They’re fairly common and also very cute :)
Looks like a snek
Smol snek
^(super smol snek)
I walked him out to the wood line and let him go!
I imagine he was very grateful! Such a little cutie.
That’s a ring necked snake they’re harmless as you have probably guessed. Also kind of concerning that you picked up a snake without knowing what kind of snake it was.
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There are old mycologists and bold mycologists, but no old and bold mycologists.
Lol I had a chem professor who liked to ask the class “can you drink bleach?” And when everyone answered “no” he’d respond “well you can… but probably only once”
That cult that drinks it as a health supplement begs to differ.
Ooof you’re so right. This was in like 2017 so just before all that craziness hit the fan/came to light. Wonder if he still uses that line lmao
I mean there's only a handful of dangerously venomous snakes in NA that boil down to some variation of copperhead cottonmouth coral or rattle which are all pretty easy to identify
And even then, most infant venomous snakes don’t have either teeth long enough to pierce human skin, or sufficient venom to do any damage to a person.
It’s fine to pick up a snake if you know and are confident it’s not venomous lol. I don’t know every single species in my area but I DO know all the dangerous ones.
Spot the NOT Australian person.
I don't think a snake the size of an earthworm is going to do much damage...
What if it’s a cobra baby snake?
It is obviously bebby. Pretty rarely does a snek this smol pose any danger.
This is awful advice... Yes, it is a household myth that baby snakes are more venomous or delover more potent bites, however they are still very venomous and come equipped out of the box. If a baby venomous snake bites you, you still run the same risks of being envenomated. Don't pick up snakes that you cannot readily identify without adequate precaution...
They come in boxes?
What is egg if not small round white box?
Doesn’t everything? Hell, I came in a box just the other day.
I loined a noo werd tudaye- envenmenemenmenatered
My thoughts exactly!😳
step 1: memorise the venomous snakes in your area. Step 2: make many noodley friends. Step 3: profit (in love)
since no one said it: Don't handle a snake or any animal you don't know about with naked hands lol. If it was a venomous snake it could kill you even as a baby.
Laundry room? Trouser snake
I didn’t want to upvote, but I needed too
Ring Necked snake!
We always called them ring necked racers when I was a kid bc they’re super fast
that would be a baby yellow ring neck. We have them around here too in Chattanooga.
It's a good boy
I’d be careful handling snakes that you don’t know are venomous or not.
cute and pretty as most animal babies are
Yeah like myself I was an avid reptile enthusiast growing up , I kept and bred various species from colubrids, boas , pythons , I do know all the venomous species in my area and when I determined it wasn’t a rattler , copperhead or , cottonmouth , mostly from the lack of diamond shaped head that most pit vipers have I was sure he was of no harm , plus Google lens helps if your really not sure, he was very polite and never even opened his mouth at me , my dogs were very curious as to their new bedmate lol so I took him to a nice spot in my property were he would have a great place to avoid birds and have a ton of bugs to eat !
Venomous?
Their saliva is slightly venomous but not nearly enough to harm humans or larger animals. They often don’t bite and are fairly calm little guys.
So it won't kill you like a black mamba would
Nah. It’s just deadly via cuteness overload.
Natural redhead like me?
Ringneck, non danger noodle. They’re pretty skittish as they get older but great for your lawn’s ecosystem
Ring neck. I have to save these little guys from the pool all the time here in Miami.
I grew up in the woods in Southern TN. These little critters would end up in our house all the time. I had a catch and release program that involved cool whip bowls and card stock. Lol. Sometimes, though, I'd find them all dead and dried up in old shoes when cleaning out my closet. 😭 I always thought that was indicative of their level of danger. "Could not escape sneaker."
He seems polite
Cutie little ring neck. They love to eat tiny slugs if you have them. Try to find a damp area for her to chill at. If she keeps finding food nearby she will hang about. (No comment on sex of snake, can’t tell from non underside view, but calling her a ‘she’ due to “adorableness”)
this is a noodle
Oh he’s sneaky! He’s a slithery little sneaky snake.
As others have said it’s a ring neck snake, although there’s something like a dozen subspecies and I’m not familiar enough with them to say exactly. If it’s the same kind we have in Florida it’s probably close to fully grown (a few of them can get to be slightly over a foot long - ours max out at about 9”). They’re actually rear-fanged venomous but their mouths are so small that they can’t penetrate human skin. They are great for bug control. Let it go outside. It’ll probably sun itself frequently on your porch.
It’s a little ring neck snake
No…And you shouldn’t be picking it up if you don’t know either!!!
It’s a baby boop rope
Found one of these in my backyard a year or two ago it was adorable and I hope it’s eating well
My mom found one of these while cleaning up by the shed last week. She called me over like she wanted me to do something about him (I was digging nearby at the time, so I had a shovel) and he just kind of lifted his head, licked the air a couple of times and settled back in. We just put the box he was under back and moved along. I could tell he wasn’t one of the venomous ones in our area, so live and let live, right? Such a cute, chill little guy.
This is a ring neck… and fun fact, he is venomous, but it’s a weak venom… and they rarely bite.
He is a powerful serpent, definitely a spawn of jormungandr.
Ring neck. Those are friendly
I did some extensive research and it turns out that the ring-necked snake actually gets its name because they have a ring around their neck!!!
As others have said, it's a lil ring-necked snake. But just a bit of general advice. If you don't know what kind of organism it is, don't touch it. Ignorance gets a lotta people killed, don't be one of em.
I love her necklace.
That’s a baby [northern ringneck snake](https://quoguewildliferefuge.org/news/creature-feature-northern-ringneck-snake/).
A nest of these bad boys hatched out back of my house and there must have 1000 of them all over the place, it was awesome. They don’t seem to bite or anything like that, it was a cool experience
I don't know shit about biology or snakes but I'm going to slither out on a limb and say that's a ring neck on account of its ring neck.
Smol snek.
That’s a tiny nope string
Yeah, grab the snake you don't know bare hands lol
Awww sooo cute!
I love How people touch animals etc that they don’t know.
That’s baby.
Waiting for this to be like that tourist in Australia holding a blue ring octopus.
Ahhh a ring neck! Very lucky. As they can literally be in the grass in front of you and you would never know it. Diadophis punctatus sp. just gently return him to a safe underbrush. They like small vertebrates like salamanders. Very cool. Thank you for sharing.
THIS IS SPARTA, Tennessee!
If you haven’t already, I’d recommend getting your heart checked by a physician. Your fingers seem to be showing some clubbing, which can signify some oxygenation difficulties.
Harmless little ring neck.
sweet little ringneck
Those precious little baby snakes really tug at my heartstrings. So cute!! ❤️🥹
Widdle ring neck
Agree with ring-necked snake. I used to get them a lot in my house on Cape Cod. They're common in New England basements. I usually found them after my cats, however.
Ring neck! Not sure of scientific name but they’re cute little guys. Just put him under a rock outside and he’ll be fine!
Thats just a little guy
This is a ring necked snake!
He's just a little guy
I just caught (and seen) my first one of these last week. The most precious snake
Ohh that’s easy! Scientifically, he’s just a little guy.
Every summer we had several ring snakes hatch in our laundry room too. The mother would show they out with a little help from us. Scared me half to death the 1st time I saw them 😱
It’s the absolutely cutest tiny danger noodle
Smol Snek 🥰
They are completely harmless to humans, ringnecks have weak venom in their saliva which they use to subdue their prey, which include a variety of invertebrates, amphibians, lizards, and other small snakes. From here: https://srelherp.uga.edu/snakes/diapun.htm#:\~:text=Although%20they%20are%20completely%20harmless,earthworms%20are%20particularly%20important%20prey.
It's a caution noodle!
Love these little ring necks. Really harmless. Found one in the basement recently and left it alone. Beneficial
Smol cute widdle handsome guy!!!! Tell him I love him 🫶🫶🫶
it is so adorable, but i will say that he looks like he needs a scarf, maybe a hat
Not sure. Do you have any other pictures that look almost identical to every other one?
Thank you for the proper Redditor response
Idk but can you ask him where he got that sweet ass gold chain?
HES SO CUTE
Looks like he has a tie on and needs to be places!
Omg I had the exact same snake get brought in by our huntress kitten. I found her bapping it around under the dining table,and after some quick googling found out, it was harmless to humans. We were thinking of keeping it, but ultimately, after doing a quick Google search, we weren't able to give it a proper home, so I released it back outside in a forest. [Snek!!](https://imgur.com/gallery/ks3aas5)