I got a call that there was a snake up at the library in town. I was out riding my motorcycle and just stopped by thinking it was going to be a bull snake or some other obviously native Iowan snake. Well, I find what I thought was a corn snake, which should not be loose in Iowa. I bring him back home and look up pictures of native snakes and find the fox snake is pretty darn similar. If he's a wild snake I'm going to freak out a little, I don't just go picking up wild snakes, and he was very calm and in perfect condition!

I really hope he's a corn snake so I don't feel like an idiot for picking up a protected species