Found my lost corn snake after 12 years!!!!!!!

[nurburgring1]

Great story.

[Famous Graham]

Andy Zarse said:

normalbloke said:

Andy Zarse said:

Not wishing to be a party pooper, but isn't releasing non-indigenous species into the wild an offence against the Wildlife and Countryside Act? What if he meets a lady corn snake and they nreed? Not good news?

It is almost frowned upon as much as posting on a thread before reading it...

Great story!

I did read the thread before posting ??? and very heart warming it is too.

The Cornsnake is a North American species. It is not indigenous to the Uk and an offence is commited on releasing it into the wild. I was simply concerned that the OP may not realise he was commiting an offence then posting about his actions on PH.

So I don't understand your problem.

The point was that philthy already said that.

[eharding]

Andy Zarse said:

The Cornsnake is a North American species.

...and like a lot of North American snakes, will claim to be able to trace lineage back to the original Pilgrim Pythons who slithered off Plymouth Rock next to the Mayflower, either that or claim to be Scots, and turn up at Burns' Night dinners dressed in very dodgy snake tartan and generally not knowing what the hell to do with a sporran. Thankfully, very few of them claim to be Irish, given that St.Patrick apparently wasn't keen.

Anyway, good luck to the little blighter.

[Adz The Rat]

Brilliant, its amazing it has survived this long in the wild!!

As for it being illegal, come on who really cares???

[Dr G]

Not I, said the Wolf

What a cool story, how long do the blighters generally live for?

[Killer2005]

Dr G said:

Not I, said the Wolf

What a cool story, how long do the blighters generally live for?

25 years IIRC

Hope mine makes it that far, however mine won't be playing out to the same extent as the OP's

[okgo]

Adz The Rat said:

Brilliant, its amazing it has survived this long in the wild!!

As for it being illegal, come on who really cares???

Not me, if its never ventured further than the back garden in 12 years then I would wager it won't anytime soon.

[dudleybloke]

snakes alive!

would be cool to put a camera on the rockery to see him hunt.

[okgo]

dudleybloke said:

snakes alive!

would be cool to put a camera on the rockery to see him hunt.

Just look on youtube, or discovery channel, cooler snakes with awesom venom killing stuff.

[Celt]

Good post. Wonder what the furthest away its traveled is.

[Nolar Dog]

I think you did the right thing. Must have been cool to see him again!

Signed: A. Snake Fan

[GTIR]

Celt said:

Good post. Wonder what the furthest away its traveled is.

Second gnome on left.

[AdeTuono]

GKP said:

Wild? It was bloddy furious.


(NTNON)

Absolutely livid.

[308mate]

Err...Im with Andy Zarse on this one. As nice as it is to hear about, releasing a non-native species in to the wild is an absolute no-no in my opinion. The wildlife balance is too delicate. Im actually amazed that attitude seems to be in the minority on this thread.

Examples:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbits_in_Australia

For something closer to home, the driving out of red squirrels:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Squirrel

Fine, youre doing your old pet/freind a favour. But what about the species already native, happily roaming the countryside who werent expecting to come across a corn snake this summer?

In my opinion, tres uncool.

[bonsai]

I'm sure it was well chuffed, having enjoyed the last 12 years free to roam as it pleases it's now back, stuck in a poxy tank.

[Somewhatfoolish]

bonsai said:

I'm sure it was well chuffed, having enjoyed the last 12 years free to roam as it pleases it's now back, stuck in a poxy tank.

You're the worst at reading so far

[Davi]

Somewhatfoolish said:

bonsai said:

I'm sure it was well chuffed, having enjoyed the last 12 years free to roam as it pleases it's now back, stuck in a poxy tank.

You're the worst at reading so far

can you hit reply just by looking at the title in the forum list?

[bonsai]

Davi said:

Somewhatfoolish said:

bonsai said:

I'm sure it was well chuffed, having enjoyed the last 12 years free to roam as it pleases it's now back, stuck in a poxy tank.

You're the worst at reading so far

can you hit reply just by looking at the title in the forum list?

ooops. sorry. well done for letting him free again.

[Pyro]

If you armchair warriors want to go on about how its illegal what he's done, as far as anyones aware its never left the garden, which is private property.


SO NER! :P

[Rusty Arches]

308mate said:

For something closer to home, the driving out of red squirrels:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Squirrel

Who cares about Red Squirrels? A Squirrel's a Squirrel, just seems that the Grey ones are better.