Little orange dude slithered across my living room!

[Mindibun]

Is it "field" herping when they come to you? I think so. I was sitting on the computer, browsing the web, when out of the corner of my eye I see this crawl across the living room floor:





I trapped him in a big bowl for the photos, though it probably wasn't necessary. He was super calm and laid back. As soon as I set him outside he uncurled and calmly went on his way. Really pretty little guy. Don't know what he was, but I love the perfect stripe and the cream-colored ring on his neck. This is Southern Florida if anyone wants to venture a guess at what he was.

My boyfriend gave me a good laugh during the ordeal. I hollered to him, "Hey, there's a snake in the living room!" When he asked "Which one is it?" I replied, "No, I mean it's not one of mine. There's a random snake in the house." and he just went, "...oh". -lol- I thought it was funny; maybe you had to be there.

[ADEE]

lol that is kinda funny!! I think i wouldve freaked out a little bit though if i saw anything crawling across my floor hahaha... great photos! You sure do find some weird stuff in our neck of the woods (im in south fla too)

[wolfy-hound]

That's awesome!! Is it a baby corn of some sort? I dunno, not great at ID. But it's darned cute.

[Ironhead]

Does look like a young Corn (Red Rat) snake. Cute little guy.

[CeraDigital]

Its an adult Brown snake. Not sure of the subspecies. If you had a belly shot, it may even be a Red-Bellied Brown snake

[Mindibun]

The belly was cream colored like its neck ring. And I've been told its a "decay snake" though I've never heard of that before and can't find much info on them.

[CeraDigital]

The belly was cream colored like its neck ring. And I've been told its a "decay snake" though I've never heard of that before and can't find much info on them.

Dekay's Brown Snake, aka Storeria dekayii. It's a Brown snake

It looks like yours is Storeria dekayi victa, the Florida Brown Snake.

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/herpetology...eriadvicta.htm

[Colin Vestrand]

yep, nice speciman... ours are just brown and grey in michigan.

[blackcrystal22]

Definitely not a corn. Well done at the identification guys!

Very cute. I would've wanted to keep him, but I know how bad that is. :[

[AaronP]

Oooh a red one . I've seen some brown/yellow ones and a baby red one but I couldn't catch the little sucker (he was a baby)