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BBC website photos of slow worms seem to meet the OP's description of
her snakish object.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfact...iles/281.shtml

The wrong habitat though.

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Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
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