My eastern milk snake was recently captured at a local forest. The milk snake is beautiful, and I would like to keep it. However as with my last Garter Snake baby, we can not seem to get it to eat.



The Milk Snake is about 1 - 1 1/2 feet long, and isn't very wide, maybe half an inch. So far we have only tried Crickets, he was interested in them for about a minute, then hasn't thouched them since. He has been off food for roughly a week, but we would think we would see some activity with him and the food.



Right now we are going to try fish, but are unsure if it will work. Pinkies are to big, and if this dosn't work, were at a draw. Were not sure if we should forcefeed, or try some food that is unknown to us. We have however not tried pinkies, because of his size we think they might be to big? Arnt you only suppose to feed a snake something that is the same width, or close to the same width as the snake? If you could help us on our "feeding" issue before it is to late, that would be great.



On a side note, yes, my last garter snake never ate and died in 3 months.

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