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Pic: handfuls of garters :)
Well, our wedding was a few weeks ago; but Mark and I ran across some garters that had nothing to do with wedding attire!
We moved a bunch of roofing shingles that were piled by the house; 4 pretty big garters went scrambling everywhere! Mark grabbed three of them for a quick shot and amazingly was not musked at all. We rehomed them underneath our shed, about 20 feet away, since the shingles were getting moved away.
Pic!
-Jen. Back in the hobby after a hiatus!
Ball pythons:
0.1 normal; 1.1 albino. 1.0 pied; 0.1 het pied; 1.0 banana.
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Re: Pic: handfuls of garters :)
Can't beleive he didn't get musked, the only time I have ever gotten ahold of one without getting musked was in wintertime and the poor little guy was freezing, I ended up bringing him in and housing him til spring. Great picture though!
~Dexter Mason~
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Re: Pic: handfuls of garters :)
Nice snakes! I'm never that lucky in my area (Beachwood is snake-less :-( )! Those look like Checkered Garter Snakes.
Herps I own: 0.1 Northern Brown Snake
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Re: Pic: handfuls of garters :)
Do people actually keep garters? I have tons of them in my back yard. They seem pretty snippy and they always musk me. One time I caught one and put it in a tank and a few weeks later there were baby garters everywhere! They love worms.
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Re: Pic: handfuls of garters :)
Is it the same kind of musk as retics have? If so, I've heard it's horrible!
Does anyone know if musking is more about the family of snake or what?
1.0 Husband (Aaron)
1.0 Normal (Milton)
1.0 Puppy (Ollie)
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Re: Pic: handfuls of garters :)
Stacks of shingle are an awesome place to find snakes. There was a stack in a dump site that I used to herp at were I was always guaranteed to find speckled kingsnakes when flipping shingles.
Great find!
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Re: Pic: handfuls of garters :)
Originally Posted by Jenn
Do people actually keep garters? I have tons of them in my back yard. They seem pretty snippy and they always musk me. One time I caught one and put it in a tank and a few weeks later there were baby garters everywhere! They love worms.
All you have to do is read my sig and you've got an answer. Maver (ironically he's the same kind of snake in those pictures) only musked once but he never bit me. Maybe you're catching one of those standard Garters (the green ones with yellow stripes)and like you said, small Garters love worms (and slugs) and eat them voraciously.
-Ryan Hardwikk (aka Member #6667)
My snakes:
0.1 Kenyan Sand Boa ~Nephthys~ (aka "Linky")
In a better place: 1.0 Pastel Western Hognose ~Charon~ 10/3/07-4/24/09
If you need/want to know anything about Hognose snakes, just ask me.
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Re: Pic: handfuls of garters :)
Originally Posted by Jenn
Do people actually keep garters? I have tons of them in my back yard. They seem pretty snippy and they always musk me. One time I caught one and put it in a tank and a few weeks later there were baby garters everywhere! They love worms.
A few people do. I have a friend who has a garter snake as a permanent resident now. She found it with a section of tail that was dying. Being a vet tech, she took it into work and they removed the dead section of tail. The snake is active and quite healthy now.
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Re: Pic: handfuls of garters :)
cool pic.
i have 3 garters.
0.0.2 puget sound garters
0.1 checkered het albino garter.
not a fun snake to handle but they are sure fun to watch.
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