Hello! This is my beloved rat snake Dusty, he was wild caught and has a kind of long backstory… basically he escaped and then a few years later i found him again (i didnt keep him after that, he was very happy and healthy in the wild). Recently i was wondering… what might his morph be? If you need more photos, lmk!! I have pictures of him as a hatchling and a juvenile
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Looks like a Western to me…
What area was he in? That’s probably the best way to know for sure
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Central Texas (Austin, specifically).
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Yeah Western ratsnakes do appear in that range. So quite possibly.
I’m no expert at my IDs so someone may come in to correct me if I’m wrong.
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Even if you did get it wrong, thank you for the help! I appreciate it :]
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Looks to be a Wild Type Texas Rat snake, I see them all the time where I live and recently relocated an absolute unit of one found in a chicken coop eating eggs and chicks.
This one was easily 4+ feet and looked to be a gravid female.
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@armiyana & @cmsreptiles are both correct. Taxonomically it’s a Western Rat Snake, Pantherophis obsoletus, Texas locality.
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