Over a year ago my little 4 year old brother in law let one of our 2011 hatchling corn snakes out of its tub when we lived in the same duplex. Never saw the first sign of it after it. We just assumed it got into the walls and died or something along those lines. I honestly had forgotten all about it. Well yesterday we get a text from my other brother in law saying he caught a corn snake in the field by their house. I told him I would stop by and ID the snake for him since corns aren't indigenous to Ohio and it was probably an eastern milksnake. Imagine my surprise when I get there and it turns out he caught our lost corn in the yard while it was eating a massive mouse. I'm surprised it was eating at all because the temp outside was only 53 degrees F. Not only that, but outwardly it appears healthy, is well fed and is even bigger than the corns we held back from last year! I know for a fact this is our corn because the house it over a mile from the nearest house and no neighbors keep any reptiles. Plus looking at old photos you can easily tell it is one of ours. He/she is in our QT rack now at our new house and getting some much needed heat to digest that meal.

Here is the corn as soon as we got home.