Found Someone In My Shed

[mackynz]

For a second I thought I was in Off-Topic and this thread was going to be about finding a person in your shed

Cools snake

[MasonC2K]

I am in the Corn Snake camp.

[John1982]

You found yourself a corn snake, they're great at keeping them pesky rodents out of sheds.

[Miles]

I'm debating on wether to keep the little fellow or just let him loose, but in any case, he got a free meal from me bugging em so he shouldn't have minded the experience if I cant keep em. I dont supposed there's a way I can tell if its male or female? Without checking that area, because I can't do it as I'm a novice and don't want to hurt the little guy.

[satomi325]

A corn or a rat snake.

Definitely a colubrid though.

[John1982]

I vote for a release back into the shed, they're gorgeous animals that do their job well. Just think of it as a super large enclosure, you'll see that bugger ever now and then and if he had hands you'd give him a high five for keeping the rodents at bay.

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If you want a corn snake as a pet you would pay much less buying a CBB than it'd cost to purge that snake of parasites and get it acclimated to captive care.

[beccadp74]

Beautiful color and markings. Does it let you handle it? Wonder if someones pet got loose?

[Daybreaker]

That's a corn, and I'd let him/her go and get yourself a nice CBB baby/adult like John said if you're looking into corns. No way to tell the sex unless you probe, but sometimes you can guess based on how the tail tapers after the cloaca. I wouldn't put an adult corn in a 10 gallon personally, I vote at least a 20 gallon long or a nice larger tub.

[rebelrachel13]

It's a corn snake. Better off releasing it, IMO. Wild caught can cause problems not only for the individual snake but can be hazardous to the rest of your animals. Let it be your token snake-in-the-woodshed.

[WingedWolfPsion]

What John said. Much cooler to have a wild animal volunteering to live on your property, then to put him through all he would have to go through to become a pet snake. (Vet trips, deparasitizing, acclimation, etc). Captive bred corn snakes are inexpensive and easy to find, if you want a pet corn. Let this guy be a wild snake.