My Teacher's Garter Snake

[Sir Hognose]

Sorry for the bad photos, but his name is Otis Jeffrey Baylor, and he's approximately 3.5 feet long, and is fed on Tuesdays 5 small goldfish and has a heat lamp and probably aspen bedding. We handle him for 5-10 minutes every day and my teacher has had Otis for about 10 years. He's cute and well behaved, and enjoys having humans warm blood on him, as he likes to sit above my wrist on that big vein there.

[Sir Hognose]

I know gold fish are bad, but its not my snake.

[Sir Hognose]

I'll post a picture of him in my hands tommorow morning.

[vangarret2000]

I heard feeding goldfish isn't a good choice but I can't remember why. You should maybe look into that.


Also "enjoys having humans warm blood on him". Wow.

[ladywhipple02]

Also "enjoys having humans warm blood on him". Wow.

The OP is twelve years old - I would imagine they meant something like "body heat."

I have a lot of respect for a teacher that keeps these animals - especially one that tries to teach their students not to fear the animals, as well as how to care properly for them.

FYI... Here's a thread as to why you shouldn't feed goldfish: http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...-snake-keepers!

[Sir Hognose]

I heard feeding goldfish isn't a good choice but I can't remember why. You should maybe look into that.


Also "enjoys having humans warm blood on him". Wow.

You knew what I meant, I didnt mean literal blood, the warm blood that runs through veins, sorry not to be specific body heat