Quote Originally Posted by mainbutter View Post
I have no advice, but just had to say I'm extremely jealous!!

I've in fact only seen two garter snakes in the 4 college years (so excluding summers) and 2 full subsequent years living in MN. Both were this year. I think this year had a garter snake explosion... possibly related to the well-documented increase in mouse populations?

One of the two garter snakes actually got into my minnow trap in the garage, little did I know it could trap snakes also! The dog found the snake first and was really spooked by it, and now he's scared of the minnow trap.. lol

They'll go into their winter cycle soon enough.

Well considering that you are jealous I wish we could swap. I did like having them around at first but now I am freaked out and worry about hurting them.

I am happy winter is almost upon us though so I soon won't have to worry about this until spring.

I'm guessing there isn't much advice to be had in this situation other than to be careful but I figured I'd give it a shot anyway.