I love rat snakes. One of my friends has been breeding them for a number of years, as well as corn snakes and king snakes. They all really have some amazing color variations, from pure white to black to purplish to blue to yellow to orange to striped and everything inbetween.
If they did not eat rodents, I would definately have a few, but even though I understand that snakes have to eat rodents, I can’t bring myself to feed them.
Missy - I thought you worked at the Folgers place?
Did anyone find a queen snake? Because if you get chomped by a queen snake you’ve had it.
Fly - it’s “Snacks (Pringles) and Beverage (Folgers and Millstone)”
Used to be “Foods” - but we sold Duncan Hines, Jif and Crisco.
Missy
Kellogs Corn Snakes.
Nah, can’t see it catching on somehow.
If anybody did want to buy a corn snake, I’d give this advice:
Do not buy from a pet store. Not only are snakes in pet stores often over-priced, they are often carelessly inbred and diseased (mites are almost to be expected on pet store reptiles, ugh). It’s better to find a good breeder and have the snake shipped if it’s far away than it is to go next door and buy a pet store snake.
It’s against the rules to mail snakes in the US postal system, so you have to label them as lizards but it is perfectly safe to do. I have a friend in Arizona who breeds snakes and ships them this way and has never lost one.
Aw shucks. There’s definitely a kernel of truth in that observation.
I don’t know hominy more of these I can take.
Well, I got my wish, more or less.
This morning I was out at the wooded end of our yard, looked down, and there was one of these, about 18 inches long:
I picked him up and visited with him awhile and then watched him slide off. It’s amazing how snakes move.
That’s not a picture of the actual snake, just one about the same size (the one that visited me was a little bigger, actually) with very similar markings.
Best wishes,
Jerry
And what does Ralph #X have to say about this conflict of interest?
Ralph the I’ve Lost Count doesn’t say much. I know he’s here because I hear him scurrying under my desk. He doesn’t show himself, though. Now that Antoine (dog) spends a lot of time in my office, things are a little different than before. Mouse does seem to like Antoine’s food though, which simplifies the business of feeding him.
For a long time, Antoine’s favorite toy was the plastic peanut butter jar lid I had used as a feeding dish for Mouse. I referred to it as “Antoine’s mouse flavored hockey puck.” He loved that thing. I don’t know where it’s got to, haven’t seen it lately.
Best wishes,
Jerry
I just Googled “queen snake” and none of the sources list this aquatic species as venomous. It’s a predator primarily of crayfish that have just shed their exoskeletons.
You captured the same beautiful smile Red Lady has. I wished the photo that I showed had that.
That one is just a baby, about the size Red was.
Crazyness.