A wild encounter

Had an interesting experience today. Had one of my snakes out in the yard for some enrichment. I like to get them outside from time to time when the weather is nice. My girl Nika really enjoys it and she is such a sweet girl. Picture of Nika. I know most people that read these topics like pictures.


Well while I was following her through the grass I noticed something out of the corner of my eye moving. Took me a sec to focus on what it was. Well it was another snake coming over to check Nika out. It seemed really curious enough where I had to give it a gentle nose boop to get it to back up some. Not a fan of my reptiles interacting with wild reptiles so I scooped my girl up and took her back in. I did go back out and get some pictures of the mole kingsnake that was being curious of Nika

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Interesting! Do mole kingsnakes eat other snakes? Maybe the scent drew him in. Both snakes are very cool!

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Not sure what mole kings eat. I was thinking the same thing with the scent. I doubt he was looking at eating her due to the size difference. Nika is 5.5 foot give or take. The mole king was about 17 inches. I think the mole king was more curious than anything.

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