Exotic Room Memories - Dougie the Milk Snake

Continuing the theme from yesterday another reptile that we lost in the last year was Dougie the Milk Snake - who may well have been a female. There are around 24 species of  Milk snakes but they are all quite small usually measuring around 20 to 60 inches - milk snakes are a species of King snake and are not venomous.

Dougie was a Red Milk Snake, with colours of red, black and white/pale yellow. One of the problems with Dougie is that he never really grew well and did not always feed properly. Milk snakes feed on insects and small rodents like mice. Dougie used to eat pinkies (day old mice) around once a week.

Around the end of last year Dougie caught an infection and would not eat properly. Trinity vets did all they could to help him but he died earlier this year.

"No I don't like milk"