they have an entirely different head shape??? A corn has a much more pointy snout and also, they have a much more defined neck area, whereas lampropeltis tend to have a stubby little head with hardly any defining neck region. Can't you see the tiny stubby nose on my milk? And how she looks like a head attached to a body without much of a neck? The other characteristics that separate this animal from a corn are its SCALES. They are extremely smoother and shiny, like GLASS. Like a kingsnake... like a milksnake, and NOT like a cornsnake. Yet another... are its extremely neat saddles? They are hexagonal in shape, they are very wide and narrow and flat and they are very close together. I have only seen saddles like that on corns that have been line bred for that look. Yet another characteristic is the side pattern, the little bars and markings on the lower sides under the saddles. I mean... just look at them... they are very different from a corn's sidebars/spots. Her belly is checkered, but it's kind of mottled and the checkering is not very crisp. She is also much shorter in length that a hatchling corn. Like I said before, she is stubby. Like kings and milks tend to be... not that long and lanky look like a corn would have. Hell I REALLY wish I still bred corns like I did a few years ago... I would have an amel baby here and I could show you them side by side. Finding a picture that looks like my snake in the same position is not a very good comparison. Also... I would appreciate it if you did not use my photos and if anyone else does want to use my photos shoot me a message first is all that I ask! There are certain things that as a herper you don't learn by reading books. You learn them by getting out there and flipping stuff over and finding snakes. You learn subtle little details that you cant really put into words. You just see them, and you just know! I don't need a freaking scientist or any amount of books to know what I am looking at in my home state of PENNSYLVANIA. Where we DO NOT have corn snakes. Sorry, but I don't have any book or anything with scale counts... so you'll have to do without! I am pretty sure if it was a cornsnake... SOMEONE out of all the people with extreme knowledge of NA colubrids would have noticed. I have been reassured by some very great hobbyists that they agree without a doubt it is a milk. The only people who are calling it a cornsnake are the noobs. No offense. But it does kinda make ya look like a noob! I don't meant to come off like a royal beeotch, but I tell it like it is and I don't care about other people's feelings when it comes to snakes. I felt as if my integrity was being attacked... but I am pretty confident I know a milk when I see one, even if it is albino and resembles an ultramel corn.





A photo of the anal plate will now not come for a few days. I refuse to bother her, as while I was away at work today SHE ATE A PINKY!!!! The last thing I need is to disturb her and to stress her into regurgitation. She is extremely wiggly and aggressive when handled. She has a lot of fight in her!



Also, I love how over the years on the forum... people have just taken to calling me SLB... it's so funny! haha

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