Happy ending for plains garter escape, sort of....

eyespy · 10-13-02, 05:51 PM

Way back in August my cat knocked the weights, light and screen top off of my plains garter cage and both of them escaped even though I heard it happen and was there in just a few seconds. Fast little devils! I tore the place apart often but never found anything but poop in odd places for a few days.

On Thursday night I came home and found my same evil cat playing with the male, and surprisingly he only had a couple of minor bite wounds to his tail. He's a bit on the thin side but not too much, so he must have been eating bugs during his 2 month adventure. He should heal up and fatten up nicely.

Now I have new hope that the female is alive and doing reasonably well and will surface one of these days.

wolfchan · 10-13-02, 07:17 PM

Congrats, glad to hear you got him back! Hopefully the female will surface soon!

josefg · 10-14-02, 02:17 AM

Good luck in finding the female!

Wilma · 10-23-02, 09:38 PM

Anychance your cat my start finding baby garters everywhere?

tai_pan1 · 10-23-02, 10:27 PM

Good for you! Buy your cat a treat and then set her loose to find the female!

SilverTongue · 10-24-02, 03:26 AM

glad ya got the lil guy back! Hope ya get the lil girl soon!

Lisa · 11-06-02, 04:36 PM

what you might try doing is taking something like a vcr or satalite receiver and plugging it in some where where the snake could get to it. the snake might crawl up on it for the warmth

eyespy · 11-12-02, 11:05 PM

Lisa, that's an excellent idea!! But I read it several hours after Lilith just appeared on her own on my living room floor. I found her before the cat did, too!!

No chance of baby garters until next year, thank goodness. Cat would have a field day with them and that would be awful.