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SNAKE TERROR IN BX. APT.

Yesterday began on a hiss-terical note for a Bronx family when a little boy went for a drink of water — and saw a 4-foot snake coiled under the living-room table.

“I felt so scared, I went running to my room!” said Hugo Rodriguez, 7, who raced back to the bedroom he shares with his sisters Jacqueline, 9, and Nancy, 13, on Gerard Avenue.

“He woke me up with his screaming” at around 7 a.m., said Jacqueline.

“We thought it was going to bite us or something,” said Nancy. “I couldn’t breathe, and I started crying more.”

Mom Maria Dominguez watched as the yellow snake with brown stripes seemed to be momentarily stuck on a glue trap for mice.

He then slithered toward the kitchen, she said.

Cops from the Emergency Service Unit, using broomsticks and crates, corralled the snake.

It was taken to Animal Care and Control and identified as a nonvenomous yellow rat snake, indigenous to the US Southeast.

Cops were trying to find out where it came from and if it had been a pet.