Doug that is a beauty! Okatees are pretty but I prefer the miami corns and that you had in the photo was special.
I have kings too and find them to be much easier to get feeding than most of my rat snakes.
Don't know why what I have differs from what 53kw have.
Comparing my kings to my rats the kings are eating machines blindly striking, biting anything come feeding time be it a mouse, hand, branch, or even themselves.
They are not nasty just tend to be "kingsnake stupid" at times.

Rat snakes tend to be thinkers and much more aware of whats going on around them. I've found them to be moody at times. Gentle mostly but sometimes full of piss and vinegar. My blue beauty will strike at me with a closed mouth as if to give a warning that he isn't in the mood to be pestered with that day.
I've had baby rats that I will try every trick getting them to feed. I also have two tiny speckled louisiana kings that are voracious feeders.

My corns are also very gentle never biting. Go figure.
As for evil...I have a white lipped python that was a wc juv and is huge now. It is not a nervous snake at all. It is calm but will also calmly rip your face off.
When the cage is left open it will go out of its way to reach around corners to nail me. Evil for sure.
Mike.

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