Out of town

[charles parenteau]

Damn few minutes ago my boss told me that I will work out of town from Monday to friday maybe Saturday and my other eastern didn't gave birth yet!!! And I have a lot of babies to take care of.
Hope she give birth tomorrow.
My only friend that could take care of my snakes is on vacancy and he lives an hour from here .Always at the worst time....

I will make extra hiding place for babies¸don't want the mom to crush them.And the smell OH GOd if some babies die or death at birth.I have A blower with coal filter but its not efficient at some point.
I want to fed the mom as soon as possible because she stop eating gradually for days and definitely stop one week ago.I already have few frogs and toads in the fridge just for her...Usually as soon as they give birth i fed them like pig .

So many little things that make me feel timid.
I need A girl friend who can take care of my snakes¸Is that possible ,where is she??
More plausible that I will make extra time on job and Hope finish on thursday.The story of my life but at least I have a job!!!

[mustang]

good luck i wish u the best.

[drache]

that's going to be one of the longest weeks of your life, Charles, and I don't envy you at all
I can't even imagine

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

I used to say that... I need a boyfriend that will take care of my snakes for me when I am not around... where is he??? still havent found him... my boyfriend sure doesnt know how to take care of snakes!!! and weve been together 3 years!!!

[ssssnakeluvr]

I used to say that... I need a boyfriend that will take care of my snakes for me when I am not around... where is he??? still havent found him... my boyfriend sure doesnt know how to take care of snakes!!! and weve been together 3 years!!!
shame on him.....I got Nikki trained in case I have to go anywhere :cool:

[Millinex]

Sometimes my girlfriend does a better job than me with taking care of the snakes!

[k2l3d4]

Now see that is where i lucked out... both my boyfriend and I are into snakes... hee hee hee... now i feel so lucky :)

[charles parenteau]

BAck to reality.I've been worried with good reasons.All babies are dead,all ...Every single babies was in perfect condition good size,no slug no deformation just dead.I was worried because I never saw a snake acting like her.
Few days before I left home for work she was turning around the aquarium looking for something all the time, usually that last one day or two just before birth .She looked very uncomfortable did'Nt want food.

She don'T want food at this time ,I tried toad ,frogs ,worms,trout jellow,nothing.Tomorrow I will force fed her and probably keep her until spring or I wll keep her forever....I feel a bit guilty because she is wild caught,and this is not supposed to happen.
I think she did'nt gave birth when it was time she gave birth too late!?
Collecting wild garter snake for their babies hum not so good.I always said that its ok if you know what your doing..I cant control everything.
But I was sure something like that was going to happen with her.

[gregmonsta]

Sorry to hear that Charles. It does seems to work out most of the time but capture stress could be an issue.

[guidofatherof5]

Sorry to hear about the situation.

[drache]

oh Charles
that sounds like an awful situation to come home to
I'm sorry it didn't somehow work out better

[charles parenteau]

I caught this female in late April or early May don'T remember but she was very docile and gentle eating everything ,but I keep feeding her with frog ,toad and worms sometime trout jellow. I dont think she was stress.

I caught many other female even more orange but I bet on her because she was caught in the same ditch and few feet only from where I found MY most beautiful male.The ditch is fragmented and its like and isolated area in my spot .I found only 2 garter snakes during this time at this particular ditch.They maybe mate together more chance they did'nt but I though I got better chance with her...

She is border line ,I mean she have few caracteristic I'm looking for breeding project but my main concern is to assure her survival in the wild.And I will!I feel indepted to mother nature.Ihope indepted is the good word?!

[Mommy2many]

Charles,

I'm so sorry to hear about what happened.