OMG!!! An unexpected guest II, HELP!!!!!

[Luzmagica]

Hello all folks!!!!! Need your Help this time!!!!! :)

Maybe you remember from last year the thread:
http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=34614

where a lovely wild turtle were found at my home....

Today, my father rescue this baby snake from the swimming pool, its less lovely for us....Im sure this kind is NOT from this country, tho. i dont know nothing about if its dangerous or not!!! We dont know what to do or where send this little snake!!!! If its not a tipical specie from here we can released a dangerous specie to a wrong enviroment! and we are not going to pet this one... my mom runs away when I opened the box to take the pics!

I need your help to identificate this baby snake: I cant find an active forum in spanish for snakes....

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/3766/snake1.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/809/snake1.jpg/)

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/9857/snake2p.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/198/snake2p.jpg/)

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/8981/snake3b.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/684/snake3b.jpg/)


Any help is welcome!!!

[Katie]

Looks like a rat snake of some sort. There is a species in spain and portugal which has coloration similar to that.

Your buddy is a boy. Probably just looking for water.

[Zany Orange Dude]

Wow strange find, Luzmagica. Wish I could help you, but I don't know anything about snakes.

[azrael]

eastern milk snake, would be my guess doesnt look poisonous.

[Roland]

Just watch out some coral snakes may look like milk snake. Coral snakes is super deadly. I tried to find this type of snake on the web but it is just not that easy. It may be a water moccasin but im not sure. Water moccasins are dangerous.

[Katie]

Ugh. That definitely isn't a poisonous snake.

it looks like a ladder back snake, which is a type of rat snake that isn't poisonous, and is native to Spain and Portugal.....which is the part of the world Luz lives in. It's markings are just mottled a bit, which isn't unusual at all.

The only poison type snakes in that part of the world are brown...or vipers which have totally different shaped heads.

[Ninjinister]

Free dinner!

[Luzmagica]

Wow!!!! :o:o Folks ALL of YOU are awesome!!!!!! Thanks so much all that posted!!!!! THANKs so much specially Katie!!!! You got it!!!!!

Thanks to your info I finally found the specie.....not poison-one and not an exotic outside specie!!!! You are right : Ladder snake!!!!! 8)

The pic of a baby is exactly as Wikipedia info for ladder snake!!!!! :
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinechis_scalaris.

Also the special pattern on body is tipical as "ladder"
So this baby will be released safe and far from home!!!!!.


THANKS so much everybody!!!!! :tgrin::tgrin::tgrin:!!!!