Fox Snake

Last week while going to the garage freezer I came across a small snake coiled up on the middle of the floor. Not sure exactly what kind of snake it was I scooped it up in a small bucket and brought it in the house to show it to joey my nine 1/2 yr old son. We promptly put it into our small habitat we put together a few months ago after finding an Eastern ribbon snake on a walk behind our house.

Making the habitat.

Joey was happy to see the little snake, See the habitat has only had a frog in it for a few weeks since I let the Ribbon escape while cleaning the cage. Its kinda funny actually.  It got out of its cage a few weeks earlier, sneaking its way into a small hole next to the radiator and was lost for like two weeks. Then one day while moving a piece of plastic in the back yard sure enough there he was.
The second time it got out it jumped out the second floor window into a flower bed by the time I got outside it was gone.
Well now its gone again so its nice to have a new critter. After our research we have narrowed it down to An Eastern Fox or a Gopher snake. We are leaning toward the Fox because of its mimic of the Massasauga Rattlesnakes tail rattle when I first came in contact with it in the garage.

The Ribbon snake.

Anyway it seems to be doing fine, it goes in the water just like the Ribbon Snake did. We might get a couple more goldfish for the tank, and see if it goes for them like the Ribbon did, theres a 1.7 gallon water tank for the frog and fish.