It is a Baby Grass Snake (Natrix Natrix) They are Rear Fanged, but apparently not even as potent as Hognoses... so no danger to humans what so ever...

It aint illegal to take these from the wild... only Smooth snakes and some of the native lizards...

But they dont do well in captivity at all, they mainly eat, Fish, Frogs and worms.... and can stress really easy...

They prefer places near water, like ponds etc...


So for the best i think you should release it/

Regards

Declan

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Weelad is spot on! This comes up time and again, and folks are always scaremongering over what is legal and what isn't, to clarify, grass snakes are completely harmless, they may musk and bite (which really stinks) but thats about the extent of it!

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Check out the government website for the actual wording of the law, but basically, you cannot kill or injure them, or sell them, but you can keep them. Its not advised as they don't do particulraly well in captivity and well, to be honest, they should be left where they are. Good save from the car park though!

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sorry just looked into it on google. you can keep grass snakes my mistake .. we have found the odd lizard on the garden (common lizards) and they are protected so we have let them go.. thought grass snakes were under the same law. but good luck with the snake hope all goes well

Where i am in weymouth (dorset) we often encounter grass snakes on portland. Apparently there are adders up there too but ive never found one lol. Nice one for rescueing it from the nasty Tesco's shoppers

i even saw some bloke on animal planet say it was illegal .. im guessing it was so people don't go out looking for them to keep ..well hope so he's soposed to know what he's on about lol

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i cant beleive that some people think these are rear fanged lol! its like an english garter snake harmless, but dont piss em off cause they will musk you and it stinks!!!!

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Garter snakes are Rear Fanged.... same as the Natrix Natrix... but like you said completely harmless...

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They both have mildy toxic effects to their saliva, grass snakes are NOT rear-fanged. Garters have enlarged rear teeth but are not a proper grooved fang.

Grass snake skull can be seen here

Which is different in structure to the garters you mention, see here

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