WOMAN FINDS A SNAKE IN HER BRONX APARTMENT!

A 5-foot-long snake slithered through the Dominguez family's Bronx apartment Tuesday - and they definitely were not charmed.

"They were so scared," Maria Dominguez said of her three children. "They went to school, but they don't want to come back in here."

Dominguez, a 37-year-old flower shop worker, said the drama began at 7 a.m., when she spotted the tan-colored snake under a living room table in their fourth-floor apartment on Gerard Ave. near the Bronx Civic Center.

She ran into the kids' bedrooms to make sure they were alright, and the whole clan was soon screaming as the snake slithered around for about an hour.

"I don't know how it got there," she said. "I woke up, and the snake was just there."

Dominguez said her asthmatic daughter, 9-year-old Jacqueline, panicked and had trouble breathing after the reptilian invasion. Son Hugo, 7, and eldest daughter Jacqueline, 13, didn't fare much better.

"We have three little fish in a fish bowl - but we don't want a snake as a pet, too!" she said. "My kids don't even like dogs."

Police arrived about 30 minutes after Dominguez spied the snake, eventually trapping the creature with a broom and a plastic bag.

It was unclear how the snake slipped inside, if it was poisonous or where it lived before arriving in the apartment.

None of that mattered to Dominguez.

"I want to move now," she said.