Chowan Middle School is supposed to be home of the Bulldogs but on Friday you could say it was home of the snakes, at least one snake.

CHOWAN COUNTY, N.C. — Chowan Middle School is supposed to be home of the Bulldogs but on Friday you could say it was home of the snakes, at least one snake, which was found slithering through the hallways. Unfortunately, one little girl got bit.

“I mean I have never seen a snake in the hallway before, but it wouldn’t be something unusual,” said RC Bullock.

Bullock is an eighth grader at Chowan Middle School. It was in his wing of the school that a garter snake was discovered waving its tongue at the female student on Friday.

"She tried to pick it up and it bit her. She tried to pick it up again, and it still bit her. Then the ambulance had to come to the school and pick her up,” said Bullock.



According to the school, the snake bit the girl on the finger and the hand. Fortunately, it was non-venomous and she’s going to be just fine.

“It’s just where we live. We grow up around them,” said Bullock defending his classmates’ actions.

However, parents are a little more concerned. If that snake was venomous, this situation could have been drastically different.

“It’s a snake. Don’t pick it up, run,” said RC’s mother Lisa Bullock. “I hope my son would have enough common sense to not go pick it up or try to pick it up.”

“Yea, I’d step on its head and just pick it up and walk it outside,” said RC.

School employees removed the snake. Pest management was also called in to treat the building. However, local resident Howard Rascoe said it’s hard to hold anyone at the school at fault. When you live in the country, you are bound to get unwanted guests.

"A school is a big place. You have a lot of cracks and crevices and a snake has no bones so they can go through the smallest hole,” said Rascoe.

Rascoe said this is a very teachable moment for all those brave little boys and girls out there who aren’t afraid but should be.