While walking the dogs this morning we stumbled upon a nice yellow striped garter snake with a severe tail injury.

She's slightly malnourished and her injury is infected.

Undoubtedly with the cold weather blowing in fast she would certainly perish in the den over the winter, Cold temps are not conducive to reptile healing.

So she will be spending the winter indoors with daily antibiotic treatments while she heals up.

It looks like she will be losing a lot of her tail before we are done here. Hopefully she makes it, if not at least I tried.

She's set up in the living room away from the snake collection, just in case, AND it's a lot easier to keep an eye on her.

poor girl. She's been basking all day. Capturing her true lemon yellow seems difficult with my camera/lighting.