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Around the middle of September, I was given a small snake. At first glimpse, I thought it was a corn. After doing some looking I found out it was and Eastern Milksnake. The problem was feeding. Today is October 30. 2003 and the little guy ate a small pinkie mouse. This is the first thing he has eaten since he was given to me. Very exciting. About once a week I have tried to get him to eat. I tried small spiders, earthworms, waxworms, crickets, mealworms, and of course pinkies (f/t and live). I was beginning to think that it would never eat. After attempting the lizard scenting of a pinky last week, I tried a tail from one this week; still not interested. I finally decided to force feed him and did so with the lizard tail. The tail piece being so small, it was easy to get the snake to eat it. Then today I put a f/t and pat-dried pinky in, about five minutes later he was trying to eat it. It took about ten or 15 minutes for it to get the meal down, but did so. Hopefully it will continue to eat and grow to be a magnificent specimen.

Congratulations!! And just for future reference, you'll never get a milksnake to eat a bug.
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