One of our cats was acting as if she saw something between a pair of glass panel doors leaning on a
wall in our family room waiting for me to strip and refinish them.
I looked and looked and could not figure out what I was seeing until all of a sudden I recognized it - a snake!
I calmly told my husband, "we have a snake." He said, "where, here in the house?" I told him it was
right here between these doors. He wanted to know if it was a rattlesnake so I fetched a flashlight
so we could see it better. No rattler. Phew.
After discussing what we should do, I decided I could catch it in a plastic bin if he could move the
first door out of the way. Believe it or not, while he carefully slid one door away from the snake
I positioned the plastic bin over the snake and gently prod him into it with the lid.
Somehow, I was able to secure most of his body into the bin and holding the lid on top walked outside.
He was about 3 feet long and might be a Sonoran Lyresnake.
My husband said, "wait a minute." There I was, carefully carrying this tenuously packaged snake away from the
house and he said he would go get my camera so I could shoot it when I let it loose! I did.

Here he is between the doors:


If you look closely, you can see some of his body is still in the plastic bin:


There he goes, on his way - away from our house: