I love the more lively snakes anyway...BPs are not my thing (shh!), I've always been more into colubrids etc. (I've had BPs too though, in the past.)
Their diet was why I didn't get into them years ago...working full time with a house full of snakes + raising my own rodents, I didn't want to add any snakes that needed
a different diet that I had to go get from the store...my time was just too stretched as it was. But I think garters are adorable & I love finding them in my back yard now
& then. I love the toads too...