Corn Snake

Corn Snakes, or Red Rat snakes as they are also known, can be found in North America from Jersey, through to Florida.

Their natural habitat is pine and oak woodlands but they can be commonly found along abandoned buildings and railroads.

Corn Snakes can grow to a length of 1.8 meters and varies greatly in colour. Some snakes can be a very drab brown whereas others can be such a striking orange that it has been said they are the most spectacularly coloured snakes known.

In the wild Corn Snakes feed on rodents, bats, birds and lizards. They use constriction to kill their prey, which means they squeeze, they do not have venom.

They use their tongues to taste the world around them searching for water, food and a mate. Blaze continuously flicks his forked tongue in and out of his mouth picking up scents which are passed to the Jacobson’s Organs in the roof of his mouth.

Blaze came to us as an unwanted pet on 18th July 2000.

He is approximately 8 years old and measures 1.1 metres long but could reach 1.8 meters when fully grown.

We feed Blaze once a week and he has 2 mice for dinner.

Unfortunately, Corn Snakes are very fashionable pets and they are often purchased without even basic knowledge of husbandry, they can also live for 10-15 years, so when the novelty wears off the snakes are left homeless.

Thanks to support like yours we can continue to give refuge to homeless animals, such as Blaze and continue our conservation efforts.