Demigod

[CloudtheBoa]

This is a male eastern garter born on July 13, 2013. An e-friend of mine offered to give him to me around the time I got Draco (and in fact is the reason why I got Draco - I got interested in keeping garters when she offered him to me) in 2013. I asked her to grow him up for me until he was big enough to handle whole pinkies, though, as after caring for Draco for a bit I found baby garters are just too tiny for me. Unfortunately, she was not able to ship him to me last summer before the weather turned cold, so I had to wait until the weather warmed up this spring. He arrived yesterday (on April 9), nice and healthy and active. He's quite a bit smaller than Draco, and the day old pinkies I have still leave a large bulge, but he's very perky and inquisitive like Draco was when I kept him on paper towels (now he mostly hides away, but still comes out every once in awhile to explore and climb his plants and even still chases my fingers - he's just not out quite as often). He's been pretty much non-stop exploring since he arrived yesterday at 11 am, I even went ahead and tried to feed him after he'd been here for almost 8-9 hours. He took the pink with no hesitation and gulped it down, and is still zooming around. In a few days when the bulge goes down and he defecates, I'll get a weight on him.

He also apparently recently picked up a habit of biting according to his previous owner, and getting the hand pics I did get gnawed on a little, but the tiny thing didn't even scratch my skin and gave up after a few tries.