A 6-8" Milk Snake. He was COLD, too. It's maybe 55 down on the floor. We put him in a box, took his picture, and took him outside. He managed to get stuck in the tape holding the bottom flaps shut on the box, so I had to peel him off the tape to set him free. He certainly wasn't happy about that, he tried to bite me.

I'll have a picture tomorrow or so.

when i first read that i thought it said milk shake. i said WTF?

that is a pretty long animal. what do they eat besides milk?

Other various dairy products, of course!

Don't let Plug see this....

that is a pretty long animal.

No, he was pretty small. 6 to 8 inches is not very big for a milk snake.

what do they eat besides milk?

http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10370_12145_12201-61211--,00.html

even funnier. i thought you meant 6'-8".

so, they like cheese?

i don't click on anything with michigan in the title.

The milk part is a myth - there's no evidence that any snake has ever consumed milk. They just got that name because they hang out in barns, and farmers suspected they were milking the cows (yeah, retarded, huh?) because the cows gave less milk. Go figure - cows don't like snakes, either, and when they're nervous, they give less milk.

pics yet?

http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/503073/thumbnail/snakecropped.jpg (http://www.supermotors.net/vehicles/registry/media/503073)

Either you have a small camera or that thing is way bigger than 8".



Cool find though.

It's a close-up. The fat part of the body of the snake might be 3/8" wide. I've fished with bigger night crawlers.

(I didn't stretch him out to measure him, either, so I certainly could just be wrong.)

You should have left him in there - he was probably tearing UP the roaches! He'd have left on his own when he got too big to survive on them. I saw a TV show about the army ants in SA that sweep across the jungle each year. They showed some small office building that was in the path, and the people inside just ignored the millions of ants because the ants ignore the people, but they clean the office of other ants, termites, roaches, mice, & old food. The office workers are actually happy to see them each year.

Thats pretty awesome

You should have left him in there - he was probably tearing UP the roaches! He'd have left on his own when he got too big to survive on them.

We have a plague of box-elder bugs, he was probably chowing on those.

It's not the best environment for him, very cold and dry. We get in enough trouble with the auditors for the box elder bugs, I can't imagine how much they'd have freaked if they'd found a snake.

This kind will bite if cornered, too, which would be an unpleasant suprise when running cable under the floor.

At least it wasn't a Missassauga, or however you spell that.

That is cool man. i wish i could find an eastern milksnake in my house. if i did i would set up a tank for him and keep him. snakes are cool man. I used to have a few 11 to be exact. 1 red tail boa, 1 ball python, 6 Corn snakes, 2 king snakes and a milksnake. They were all cool to watch roam all over there cages. I also built and elborate caging system for them. they all had 8 square feet of floor space not to include basking shelves, limbs etc. That is cool though.

and BTW they wont eat cockroaches they are not insectovarius, they will eat baby mice, frogs, lizards and stuff like that. I know a guy who starved his corn snake almost to death cause he only gave it crickets and it wouldnt eat them.

I used to have a ball python, had to give him away when I moved to an apartment some years ago. He's still with the guy I gave him too.

I'd have kept this guy if there was a way to do it. I didn't have a terrarium in my pocket, though.

big thing with those is they look like cornsnakes and i have seen people put them with corn snakes. to only come home to a fat milksnake.

I used to have a ball python, had to give him away when I moved to an apartment some years ago. He's still with the guy I gave him too.

I'd have kept this guy if there was a way to do it. I didn't have a terrarium in my pocket, though.

hmm all you needed was a tupperware contianer and a heat source

i had 2 columbian redtail boas for a loong time. got rid of them a few months ago, now they have there own exibit at the zoo.

let me see if i can find a pic


edit: couldnt find one

The only snake I ever tried to keep as a pet was a ~18" copperhead that I caught by hand. The other guys in the frat house didn't appreciate the coolness of it, though. Wimps... :rolleyes:

Tryin' to picture Steve as a fratboy...

"Hey Webster, my car won't start to go get the beer."

"Here is a Haynes, and search."

Adrianspeeder

Whats the difference between a milk snake and a corn snake? That one looks very similar to my friend's corn snake.

I love that red pattern so pretty. If my dog wouldn't go crazy and want to kill it I'd get one.

"Hey Webster, my car won't start..."They actually DID call me "Webster". :brownbag A guy asked me to proofread a paper he had written, & I pointed out a word he had used that didn't exist. (I can't remember now what the word was.) He & several other guys who were in the room assured me it was a word - they used it all the time. So I challenged them to find ANY dictionary that contained it. They couldn't, so... "Webster". :shrug

But it was the agricultural fraternity (AΓP), so they didn't have cars - only pickups! ;)

Yeah I remembered from the last time ya'll talked about college. :thumbup Fergot where ya went though :doh0715:

Adrianspeeder

Whats the difference between a milk snake and a corn snake? That one looks very similar to my friend's corn snake.

I love that red pattern so pretty. If my dog wouldn't go crazy and want to kill it I'd get one.

Different species of snake. they do look alot alike and alot of people get them confused. They are smaller than corns, and more aggressive towards other snakes. Milksnakes are cannabilistic, not as bad as kingsnakes, but they are so they should be housed together.