I am a Nurse and after hearing some ear piercing screams this evening I ran downstairs to our Lab. People were clinging to each other at the counter...one woman was on top of chair even because there was a "snake" in the lab room. I went in with a few brave souls (behind me) and was suprised to find that there was a snake in there. We're in Baltimore County and it has been a warm rainy October... It turned out to be a completely terrified (and chilled) Northern Brown snake about 12" long. I would have taken it outside and let it go in the grass and trees except I noticed that it has wound bilaterally on it's mid section and worried about it's ability to survive/hibernate. It's not draining and perhaps is a newly formed scar. I'm thinking some kind of bite from a domestic animal. I could take a picture of it if anyone is interested. In any case I brought it home and put it in a plastic shoe box with a with a vented lid. It's pretty active now exploring the box and tasting the air now that it's warm, and doesn't have people screaming and going berserk. My plan is to release it, but I'd like to know if I can take it away from where it was found to a safer place, and can I give it a meal or two of baby crickets dusted with Herp vitamins? The former question because I work with a Doctor that lives on a farm and is happy to release it in his garden but I want to make sure given it's wounded it will survive hibernation or should I keep it until it's healed and release it in the Spring. Thanks for any help anyone can offer.

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