Waiting - for a real mouse!

I asked my students to recall some highlights of their year. One girl said she loved the snake! She loved watching it eat! Yesterday, she brought in this diorama she made of Sunny the snake, which shocked me!

After school, I fed Sunny. I knew she was about to shed b/c her skin had turned very white? I have never seen her shed. She usually does it at night. I was working in my room and about 10 minutes after feeding her I looked in the cage and she had shed!! Bummer! I missed it and I was right there!! It was still very moist and easy to straighten out. So I got a meter/yard stick. She is now 3 feet and 3 inches long!! I had no idea!

Since I couldn?t decide which aspect of Sunny to blip, (the skin and yard stick OR the diorama), I chose to include parts of both!

Corn Snakes: The corn snake (Elaphe guttata), or red rat snake, is a North American species of rat snake that subdue their small prey with constriction.[1] The name "corn snake" comes from the fact that they have a maize-like pattern on their bellies and because they were found in corn fields. The Oxford English Dictionary cites this usage as far back as 1676. Corn snakes are found throughout the south-eastern and central United States. Their docile nature, reluctance to bite, moderate adult size 1.2 to 1.8 metres (3.9 to 5.9 ft), attractive pattern, and comparatively simple care make them popular pet snakes. In the wild, they usually live around 15?20 years, but may live as long as 23 years in captivity. [2] Like all rat snakes, corn snakes are non-venomous.