I didn't look close enough. I of course spent the last half hour looking up snakes and figured your question was the pertinent one. I don't have an answer though.
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Sounds more like a corn snake than a copperhead from the way you described it. Copperheads are very aggressive even at young ages. Noticeably more so than a corn snake. They strike without warning and immediately. Either way if you'd have gotten bitten you would be fine if you went to the doctor. Especially if you were to take the snake with you for easy identification. Just figured I'd let you know so you're not freakin out about going to bed lol.
My grandmother had a "pet" lizard that lived in a fake tree out in her three seasons room. He was really cute. She named him Stubs, because he lost his tail so he just had this little stub.
Pretty sure it came through the open window, which is now closed. It's screened but the screen is a little jacked so there is a small place where it probably came in.
If you are brave enough (and want to) to open the window again, put moth balls around where the window is, maybe even in the window sill. I can't explain the science behind it, but that was what I was told to do around the chicken coop because something about the smell would keep them away so my eggs didn't get stolen.
They are!! Awwwww so cute! The last time I visited St. Croix, I found a teeny green lizard chilling in the living room. They're all over there, really. Usually out on the balconies/terraces. So cuuuuute. I just worried a lot because I'd hate to step on one lol. Things are barely the size of crickets.
O,my, CoruptAI, it might be time to check the house for holes--real carefully.Look everywhere, every inch.That's assuming, of course that you don't have someone funnin' you. I used to live in Austin and then Lake Travis. We had all kinds a wildlife--two legs, four legs, six legs, eight legs,many legs, no legs. Not long ago there was a report on the evening news that in Houston--HOUSTON-- some poor fool was going along on an upper floor of a high rise and came upon a snake coiled up in the middle of the hallway. All reared up, hood flaring--a hooded cobra, yet. They filmed it, the police were called, the press looked in, all hell broke loose. Fun was had by all, but perhaps the snake. Don't know where it came from. no one ever said. Needless to say, cobras, with or without hoods, are not indigenous to Texas--coral snakes are, though.
I've heard mothballs can deter pesky raccoons away from gardens, too. Not sure how legit that is, though. Read about that years ago when I realized some had been chomping on my container tomatoes. Hmpf. By that point I just tossed the whole operation out. I was so frustrated by that point that I didn't bother trying it, LOL.
Come to think of it, I just clawed a snake out of my mailbox yesterday. All curled up in the back, happy as a tick on a dry dog. No doubt went in there to eat lizards. Pissed me off good--second time this year. Looked like the same snake, too. Might have to dispose of it next time. Can't shock the postal person too awfully much. They are kinda high strung.
Oddly enough, I haven't seen any raccoons here in SC at all, but we saw snakes all the time, until I got the chickens and was told to do the mothball thing. Our house is sitting on 3 acres, and we own the house next door as well, which is sitting on 2 and a half acres and I did the moth ball thing around the whole perimeter of both houses and haven't seen any since. DOn't know if there are raccoons in this area, but they haven't been at our house. When we were in the city in VA, I saw them all the time.
Mothballs are old school. The most effective way to keep the snakes away is: 1. Grab snake with right hand. 2. Go to suspected window and make "Hissing" sound 3. Wave snake out window 4. Bite off snakes head and spit out open window. This sends a message to all the other snakes in the area.
I used to take my kids to the lake to swim, and then one day a snake swam right in front me. I hauled ass out of the water and left my kids behind. I wouldn't even go back in to get them, made them swim in by themselves. I hate snakes. I would burn the bed if I found one in it.
When my husband was stationed at Travis AFB in Fairfield, California we were put into really old shitty housing on a hill overlooking the nice housing haha. During the tale end of our stay there mice got into the house and started chewing holes. We tried to get an exterminator but they told us we could only set down sticky traps, which are so terrible. I don't ever recommend that. A week before we moved, a baby cornsnake got in somehow looking for the mice. I was like ok, game over, i'm ready to go NOW.