New Snake Owner

[GaryWelsh]

I had an iguana when I was a kid, and I've always had some interest in reptiles. Since getting this milk snake, now I've acquired some interest in snakes. I do think this milk snake will be happier if it is free and can hunt insects and mice eventually. Maybe in the near future I'll get a garter snake, since they seem to deal with captivity better, from what I've read.

[Loren]

I don't know... before I thought it was black or dark gray with yellowish-orange diamonds or blots. But now in my photo it looks gray-white with brownish-red blots. Maybe I was imagining a copperhead (shrug).

Hi Gary.
Well, you were about as close as any description I have ever gotton from any non-snake(or very new-snake) owner on any snake.
Doing a show in a campground last year, a girl came over and said there was a snake in her camp that was black with yellow bands ( sounds like a harmless cal king, and right in the range for one). But I decided to run over and look at it before telling her it was harmless and found it was a Northern Pacific Rattlesnake (brownish with dark brownish spots).

[adamanteus]

I was once called out to a 'large black snake' in someones' back yard.... it was a bicycle inner-tube!

[Lori P]

Well, those inner tubes can be dangerous, you know... don't want to tick them off... lol