Animal officials are still trying to figure out how a boa constrictor ended up in a Manhattan laundromat.

Employees at Gracie Laundry in Morningside Heights found the four-feet-long, nine-pound female snake curled in between bags of clothes Tuesday morning.

Animal Care and Control officials, who named the snake Slither, say she was likely an abandoned pet. She was safely removed by police and taken to its offices in East Harlem for a checkup.

"It's a very timid snake, not an aggressive snake at all. We held it ourselves here for medical. It's fine," says Jose Ortiz of Animal Care and Control. "It was somebody's pet at one point because it's very comfortable around humans."

One of the laundromat's employees called her friend Eddie Huerta, who in turn called the police.

"At first I thought it was a joke," said Huerta. "It was hanging from the bags in the laundromat and when she tried to walk away from it, it started moving."

"We get things like this all the time. The owners or people get rid of them and don't want them anymore and think they'll get into trouble because they're reptiles," said Ortiz.

Many exotic pets need to be rescued in the urban jungle by Animal Care and Control.

"You name it, we get it. A couple of [Komodo] dragons, iguanas, goats, pigs, a cow in a yard," said Ortiz.

Animal Care and Control says the snake will go to a reptile sanctuary upstate and will eventually be released back into the wild.