To keep or not to keep, a milk snake I found in my backyard.

[Jlassiter]

Originally Posted by infernalis

Exactly... I have a w/c milk snake that has been living with me for over 5 years, she's a doll.

4 of my garter snakes came from out back too.

It's not like we are talking endangered species or anything like that, these snakes are very plentiful, and it's not harming the overall populations.

so what the heck is this big hangup???

every single time someone finds a snake in their yard, people go off on the person who found it about releasing the darn snake.

My goodness, if the person is willing to take good care of the snake, the snake hit the jackpot... free food, clean water, no predators, a nice home free of floods, droughts and parasites.

No one thinks twice about ordering w/c snakes ripped from jungles, rain forests and islands in the far pacific.

These North American colubrid snakes are a LOT more plentiful than some of the exotic snakes imported every year.

Someone goes to Africa and finds a new colour pattern on a BP, we applaud the person like a hero... what's the difference?? marketability... thats the difference.

I bet if that was an albino Lampropeltis, everyone would be begging for it to start a breeding project.

Amen Wayne!
But there are a few triangulum keepers that would kill for a locale milk like this one....lol