We have a lot of garter snakes around(We don't want to accidentally hurt one.)

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My boyfriend and I moved to a house in Saint Paul last winter and when spring first came we started seeing garter snakes which we thought was really awesome at first. Now we have seen so many over the spring, summer, and fall that we worry about accidentally killing them.

I almost ran over one with the lawn mower in the summer but spotted it just in time and just the other day there was one right in the path of my boyfriend's car and we were just about to leave in his car but I spotted it and made it crawl off into the yard.

We also had one crawl into our garage one day when we were doing some stuff in there.

And a few days ago I spotted 3 tiny(like the size of a large night crawler worm) hatchlings in a single day on the driveway and I know if they were in the yard and I accidentally stepped on one it would die.(and they would be too small to spot in the grass)


At first we liked having them around but now we worry we will accidentally kill one.

Any advice would be appreciated.


P.S. I have lived in the twin cities all my life but I think I maybe have encountered 2 or 3 garter snakes in all my life until we moved here.

We have probably seen 20-30 since living here for a little under a year!