Long ago, I had some Honduran Milksnakes. Both escaped, and have never been found, dead or alive, and there has been no deadly stinks in the house. Never found them, never seen them again.
At the end of last summer, what appeared to me to be a California Kingsnake was found in our barn. My step son chased it out of the big barn and it disappeared into the grass, but I have a hunch it might have headed back into the barn at some point unless it found itself an underground cavern.
However, I don't live in California, I live in Mid-Michigan. The banding was pretty equal, black vs white all the way around this snake, rather than being mostly black.
There have been Eastern Kingsnakes on the property, and I know not to kill them, step son, however, is really afraid of snakes (so is husband, so I have to keep my boa in a cage until he's out of the house.)
My question is could the escaped Honduran have lost it's color and evolved into something that resembles a Cali. King? I know the two are somewhat related. I don't really know how to approach the query correctly, and don't want to appear completely ignorant about snakes in general (although I fear I might have). I think it might have been a female (she was trying to slither up my step-son's pantleg to get warm)--HA! But I have no proof. My hope is that she found a safe place and that I'll see her again this spring before my husband see's her and she ends up toast.
