Black Rat Snake, The Best Pet Snake?

I rescued a 6 ft long black rat snake that had fallen down a cave pit in Virginia. It was so cold down there and the snake could barely summon the energy to move. I put it into my backpack, climbed the 120 ft (35m) of rope back up to the top, and released it. Once it warmed up a bit in the sun, it slithered away unharmed!

Can you make a video about Corallus ruschenbergerii specifically

rat snakes are great I have 4 😅

Great video, thank you!!!! I've always been really fond of black rat snakes as they're among the most common wild snakes where I used to live, but have honestly never considered what they would be like as pets, so this was really cool and informative :)

I say you should redo the corn snake ratings! Also you shouldn't compare them to other animals. PS I have 12 corns and only 1 was spicy as a baby, she outgrew it by around 8 months.

Click for the pet review, get a bonus phylogeny video! :D

How old is that snake your holding? I got a juvenile and they are telling me he's 1 yr old buy he's tiny and only weighs 22 grams! I can't find a picture of a 1 yr old black rat snake. TIA

My ball python is getting geriatric (20 years old this august). I’m thinking about what I’ll get next, and I’m thinking a North American snake. Easier to keep the proper temp and humidity since I’m in the American southeast. Rat snake, hog nose, king snake, bull snake, something simple.

Hell yeah! My own pet snake!

I would like to see a video on Japanese Rat snake. Do you think you can make one on them? I always enjoy your video on different spices. I learn a lot every time. as matter of fact, I got my first snake because I saw you introduce Children's python. I never thought I will have a pet snake, but now I have 2. and all started with your video. hahaha

Oh you HAVE to do Thamnophis.
I saw you already did 6 years ago, but the phylogeny is really interesting.

no comment on the thumbnail?? "bigger blacker better lol"

That uhh...that is one heck of a choice of words in thr thumbnail.

Hello I will buy my first Texas rat snake it is CB my question is can I use care information from this video for him? Oh and when it comes to handling texas are they good temper or snappy?

How can I acquire a Eastern black rat snakes ?

The Boy Scout camp I used to work at had a pair of eastern black rat snakes Ares and Athena who were wild caught in May and they were really chill the female Athena was 4 ft and male(Ares) was 6 ft and they were super great pets in the reptile room at that camp they were the snakes that got me over my fear of snakes I would visit them everyday they were great

Availability should come with the caveat that, if you live in the south, it's a five. Just go outside. There's one in your back yard, right now.

my grade 8 teacher had a corn snake.

i made it 3 minutes in to this video before i had to turn it off due to how many times he says " highest rated reptile on the show".

I think I found my first snake to keep and raise. I wonder where I could get one that's captive bred. I live in Dallas, TX, so I'm sure there's a place somewhere around here where I could get one.

I’m in the USA black rat snake live in the USA black rat snakes eat rats and mice on April 30 my brother found a black rat snake make sure to like and subscribe some snakes are venumis

I have a huge one that lives near my cabin and love watching him chill in the sun when it’s out.

I love the color of the fox snake

Hi clint ! Would be awesome if you covered the black milksnake!

I don't think I'm mature enough to ignore the sentence in the thumbnail😭

Thank you for this video! The snake that got me into herps was a Pantherophis obsoletus. Back in the early 90’s, when I was 11 I caught one and kept her for decades! It was really before there were any captive bred snakes available in my area. Back then they were classified as Texas rat snakes. JoJo was a sweet and perfect captive! Amazing animals that will always hold a special place in my heart!

Just had a clutch of 8 eastern black ratsnakes start hatching. They are very cute and beautiful.

Hello Clint. I just rescued a very docile yearling western rat snake. I decided to keep this sweet snake. So far, this young snake has eaten a hopper mouse once a week. I have had it now for nine weeks. My question is do I need to 😅cool down the enclosure as winter begins to allow the snake to hibernate? I live in hill country of south Texas. The enclosure is in a temperature controlled shop where I keep the temperature around 78 degrees, year round. With that scenario, can I continue to offer food to the rat snake year round? Your expert opinion would be appreciated. Thank you.

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I never seen one like that before

Recently I had the opportunity to hold a wild black rat snake on a hike. I literally scared the poop out of the poor thing! It didn't get any on me, though.

I handled a wild Eastern rat snake once, as it had decided my bedroom was nice and cozy. It was totally unbothered as I gently picked it up and escorted it back outside. If that's anything like the behavior of "tame" rat snakes, then they are indeed greatly suited for being pets.

Today I had to move a western rat snake from my uncle’s porch. Gave me a tiny nip then realized I wasn’t causing any harm and just was a little squirmy wanting to get away. Had the black color but seemed a tad small so probably fairly recently got the full black color. Always love the rat snakes!

Remind me again…what’s the highest scoring reptile you’ve ever covered on this channel?😂❤

My friend and I were walking in the woods at the bottom of a hill. We saw a man walking down the hill and running from him was a black racer. That snake was fast and just zoomed by us.

I have a photo of me on my wall holding a 6' Black Rat Snake I caught when I was 16. I'm 63 now and still love chasing them...lol They are also called "Black Racers" here in NC because of their speed...

I don’t have them as pets but I consider them great neighbors. In 26 years of living in the same house in rural South Carolina I’ve only seen one mouse and he was dead in the garage…These guys do they’re rodent control job perfectly. And a shout out to my Little Brown Bats that have made a come back. Taking care of the mosquito issues. We coexist just fine..

That title is something

The gray rat snakes also have a melanistic northern form, we have them here in Pennsylvania as well as the eastern rat snakes (in fact, they’re more common here than the easterns). P. obsoletus, P. spiloides, and P. allegheniensis all have black northern populations and are nearly impossible to distinguish, so I just refer to all 3 species as the black rat snake.

When I was a kid, I decided I was old enough to get a pet, and spent the entire summer checking out zoo books and pet manuals from the library to decide which pet I wanted.

I decided I wanted a black rat snake.

It was cool, rather docile, got really big, and they’re black! So I asked my mother if I could get one, and she said I could… for my birthday, which was several months off.

Time passed, and in the meantime my mom came home from the pet store with my sisters and a new cage with some mice. No worries, I bade my time.

When my birthday I was near, I reminded my mother that she told me I could have a black rat snake. My poor mother asked me what black rat snakes ate. I said, “mice.” She said she was sorry but she had to break her promise, because she could not bear to run an apartheid household with mice for pets over here and mice for feeding to the snake over there 😂

We went to the pet store and I ended up with a pet ferret.

We've got a brown variant here in Alabama that keep getting into my house, thankfully they're easy to handle and I've been able to catch most of them by hand without issue.

Are you saying that since the Texas Ratsnake and the Black Ratsnake are the same but just different colors that they should have the same temperament then?

Would love for you to do a video focusing on Baird’s rat snakes 😊 I’m having so much trouble finding a lot of info on them.

As far as snakes go, red racers are very distant relatives of blue racers. 😆

If you possess an Eastern fox snake in Michigan, you go to jail!

Gopher snakes are cute

Ive seen wild black rat snakes in kansas that had to be like a good 8-12ft ive caught one that was longer than me and my cousin put together we dug like 5ft underground to find it and we thought it was just a crawdad hole at first but it ended up being the biggest snake ive ever seen besides a burmese python it was probably like 5 inches wide it was wild to see a snake that big out in the wild and play with it he was frendly but they usually are

I just got one in my basement and let it outside.

To be honest when it comes to europe I’d give a P.obsoletus a score of 5/5 when it comes to availability but I’m not fully convinced to the 5/5 at handle ability this noodles literally hate you when they are young