Hi people! Admittedly I have not scanned every thread yet, but I will. Anyhow, here's the situation: I've had a beautiful black & olive female garter snake (Maritime or checkered?? Sirtalis Sirtalis maybe?) for about a month now, and she had adjusted to her new home very nicely. She eats from my hand/fingers and has a very healthy appetite, and would climb up and come out to me when I offerred my hand to her. After she eats salamanders, she often lets me scrape the dried salamander gunk off of her face and neck :P I sometimes take her onto the bed so she can roam around while I laze there watching her. I've dozed off to awake and find her beside be, her head poking out from under the sheet beside me. Anyhow, one day I dozed off. Normally she doesn't 'hop' off the bed, I guess she doesn't want to jump, but she did this day it seems, and when I awoke she was gone. I searched frantically and found her quite stuck to a non-toxic glue board we HAD in the kitchen to control some darned mice we had in the kitchen. I immediately got baby oil and (as gently as I frantically could) freed her from the glue board with relative ease and I'm sure quite painlessly. I then washed her with warm water and lightly oiled her to be sure any remaining sticky stuff would go away (there was none that I could tell) and allowed her to crawl through a fluffy towel to dry her.. Understandably she was quite perturbed and distraught once I got her free from this, and likely scared half to death. I took her to the living room and was examining and comforting her, and in the agitated state she was in, she was quite jumpy and to make the matter worse, jerked herself out of my grip, falling to the floor (about 3 feet down) I picked her up, resumed what I was doing, and soon after figured I better put her in her home to recooperate. Since then she has been acting 'out of character', no longer coming up to my hand, and spending a lot of time either hiding, or lying pretty still for long periods of time. She doesn't roam around her home and climb the branches like she used to. She often shies away when I talk to her or try to interact with her. She still eats very well and looks very healthy, but I am very concerned --- do you folks think she's 'pissed' at me, scared of me now, psychologically injured, or maybe just 'in a mood' from which she will recover and return to normal? I miss her usual adventurous, curious ways. It's been about a week now since all this. Thanks so much for your feedback.