However, pet owners feel corn snakes are more docile than milk snakes. Under stress, a corn snake is less likely to act out. If one of these snakes were to bite you, it wouldn’t be a big deal.

At a reptile cafe in Shanghai, 19-year-old Qiu Shiyuan gently pets a corn snake coiled around her hand. "They're just as affectionate as traditional pets," she says, eyes gleaming with affection.

Pets are often worth a labour of love. [leftthegan] — in want of a corn snake — found that Sweden’s laws governing terrarium sizes made all the commercial options to too small for a fully ...

With the arrival of the Year of the Snake, many exotic pet owners have turned their attention to the reptiles, with choices ranging from elegant black kingsnakes to colorful and compact corn snakes.