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Maggie3fan

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My beloved Camaro is forced to live in a carport instead of the garage he deserves...Anyhow, cuz I'm strange I have a carpet that I park on. I haven't cleaned the carport out in a while and it was full off dead leaves and dust, so I cleaned it up...and I found this...I know it was a snake, the skin is moist, but transparent. I have garter snakes in my yard, but this doesn't look like one of those...anybody?
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I am from Pennsylvania, and that resembles a black snake shed, but I know that those snakes are not native to your area.

I tried to do some research, but I didn't come up with much.

I wish I knew what kind it was!

Haha
 

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My beloved Camaro is forced to live in a carport instead of the garage he deserves...Anyhow, cuz I'm strange I have a carpet that I park on. I haven't cleaned the carport out in a while and it was full off dead leaves and dust, so I cleaned it up...and I found this...I know it was a snake, the skin is moist, but transparent. I have garter snakes in my yard, but this doesn't look like one of those...anybody?
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To me, it looks as though it could very well be a garter snake's shed skin. The body shape is correct for a garter snake.
 

Yvonne G

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Oregon has 15 indigenous snake species.
 

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You can't go by the length of a shed - the skin stretches a LOT as it pulls away from the body. The width is a bit more helpful (pretty narrow in this case), but again shed skin changes a lot from the original form.

The stripe down the center is consistent with a garter snake or other smallish type of grass snake (whipsnake, forex).
 

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