Goodness, I've never seen one of those before, or any sort of snake over here. I'm envious! :o)

Sorry to hear about the previous owners dumping. We've moved into a couple of homes before now that had some 'hidden extras', resulting in us having to hire a skip.

I found an injured slowworm a few years ago. After consulting with our vet, I put it in an improvised vivarium for a few days. The day before I was intending to release it - there were some extra inhabitants. Back to the vet for more advice ... and a new release date. Before that arrived, I had to urgently visit my elderly father as it turned out, he needed some hospital treatment. As that was a few days away, I asked a friend in to do some feeding etc - we also had some gerbils ... when I got back, my poor Speedy was dying and the gerbils hadn't been fed ... so-called friend hadn't bothered to visit.