Do you Wild Catch?

[CTReptileRescue]

Hi all, I've just been reading through some posts and thought to start this new thread:
Does anyone here Wild Catch their animals and keep them? breed them? study them?
Does anyone not do this and with reason.
How do you guys feel about this subject?
Thanks
Rusty

[Jesús]

I really don't like that idea so much, because since they have born in the wild they don't know how to react to different things and also carries different parasite and disies that cb don't have because theyr parents were born and raised in captivity.
Jesús

[Ironhead]

Back in my Florida day's I use to wild catch all my snakes. As far as I know, never had any problem with parasite's or getting them to eat. Caught them strickly just to have as pet's and to antagonize my sisters.

[emroul]

The two rattlesnakes I have are wild caught that I caught this past summer. I have had more WC crotes and colubrids then just these two, but I usually keep them to give them a couple good meals, then let them on their way. They have no problems eating and shedding, etc. I just keep them to look at, they probably wouldn't be much fun to hold, lol (the crotes, anyway). But seriously, I do learn ALOT from keeping them. I learn about their habits (feeding, basking, hiding out, etc). It is VERY interesting. I have gained alot of respect for them, too. I don't see anything wrong with WC specimens, as long as you know what you are doing, or know someone very close that does, so you can do everything right.

[pimp_n_python]

i agree as long as your not harming them in any way why not keep them
I bet they don't mind
they get fed regularly and they don't have to worry about becoming prey
I would keep wild caughts if there was any thing worth keeping
around my area all there is is diferent types of garters
all the cool ones are protected out here or are so hard to find that it almost never occurs

[Wizill]

wild are my favorite. they're a lot smarter.

[BallKingdom]

Maine has nothing cool except timer rattlers, too rare. And water snakes, not in my area. Needless to say I'm not much into colubris, so I have no interest in a 2.5 foot garter as a pet.

[Ironhead]

It's odd....Garter snakes around here are about as common as mosquito's during the summer yet the garter is the one snake around here that I have never kept as a pet. I use to allways catch them, but they were only good for about 15 minutes of holding then I'd release them.

[emroul]

Garter's are so gross to me.. all they do is sh!t all over you...lol I've never had much interest in them.

[pimp_n_python]

me neither
they're musk is impossible to get off ur hands
u wash and wash and wash but them smell is still there for 3 days at least!!!

although without garters i might not like snakes as much i used to catch them all the time when I was 3-16 then i moved to ontario and there isn't much habitat for them where i live
so I bought a BP 2 years later