Garter snakes

[Pogie]

This is from today lol. I love these guys
I have lots of photos of these, they make great practice for my photo hobby.

[Albert Clark]

That looks like a nice specimen right there! I'm with you on the leaving them free. Adult or baby in my case. Born free live free!! There are so many breeders of healthy captive garters why start with a potential problem from the wild. Only IMO.

[stevo-d]

Originally Posted by Albert Clark

If you bought that wee fish from the pet shop and they were minnows or aka Rosie reds it could be parasites that killed the garters back then. That could explain the swelling of his body.Their bodies became one big parasitic abcess! That is IMO. Coupled with the parasites in the earthworms they really were at risk.

The fish were silver and long and thin in packs of 50 to 100 and were frozen. That's what I remenber. When I think back I used to dig up the mud and get the worms wash them then feed to to the garters all because the guy in the pet shop said it was OK the passion was just the same as today but the knowledge was up to scratch just like that boa man 5423

[KyleKennedy]

I ran over a garter snake last week while I was cutting the grass. Felt really bad.