Drew

Here is Drew. He is a great plains rat snake. He's about 1.5 feet long. In one of the pics you can see his pretty light brown eye. Drew is a snake that I would use at my snake class. He's native to this area. If you have ever seen a corn snake in the pet store, Drew is related to that kind of snake. Corn snakes are usually yellow and orange colored.
I got Drew when he was about 9 inches long. I found him on one of my herp hunting trips. I don't recommend anyone just getting snakes and taking them home as pets. The first class that Drew did was at Frontier City, an amusement park in Oklahoma City. Like my other snake, Lucky, Drew received his name from students. Students from a Lawton high school worked with me and Randy at Frontier City and they were the ones to name him. One of my favorite types of snakes is the rat snake. Drew is not big enough to eat full-grown mice so he eats "pinkies" or "fuzzies." These are the hairless or very young mice. If I feed him pinkies I usually have to feed him about 4 of them depending on how big they are. But if I feed him fuzzies, it's just one. I feed my small snakes as often as my mice have babies. This is about once a month. I also do freeze pinkies then thaw them out to feed my snakes later. Sometimes they do not want to eat these.