... you can go to a reptile show and see 100 different morphs of corn snakes and ball pythons, but only three or four different milksnake subspecies. Being an SPCA, they're probably much more familiar with domesticated animals than wild ones, and they make identifications based on what they're familiar with. To be fair, eastern milks do look a lot like corn snakes, so it's an understandable mistake. Of course, being the Lampropeltis enthusiast I am, I knew what it was just by looking at the thumbnail picture. You didn't raise a fool, after all! (Or, at least, you raised a fool who knows a milksnake when he sees one!)



I'll shoot you an e-mail later, been meaning to for over a week now but obviously haven't quite gotten around to it...

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• "Subadult Charcoal Cornsnake" - nategodin, Sun Jun 26 08:14:07 2011
• I was just about to head out - gerryg, Sun Jun 26 09:09:10 2011
• Probably the same reason... - nategodin, Sun Jun 26 14:13:15 2011
• RE: Probably the same reason... - DMong, Sun Jun 26 17:24:40 2011
• You're both wrong - bwaffa, Sun Jun 26 10:57:38 2011
• RE: You're both wrong - gerryg, Sun Jun 26 15:45:13 2011
• Found a corn snake in Maine today - gerryg, Sun Jun 26 15:43:05 2011
• good lord!! - DMong, Sun Jun 26 17:10:51 2011