got bit by a garter

[salzar]

hi all ,
well this summer I got a garter in my back yard .
first it bit my son and he told me he was bitten by a checkered garter , well it was a garter but an eastern garter.
so I kept a look out for it and sure enuff she showed up on my back door stoop, so I opened the door and she whent in. I quickly caught her and relized she was brooding and was in fact a femail, she was very calm at first but her tail began to twitch and she bit my hand.
now my hands are so ruff I did not even feel this , wow are they quick little snakes, good thing she was not to big, but I had to let her go , did not have the heart to keep her .
but wow what a thrill to have one come right to my door!
I still have sal and nagini, they are inseperable and have been procreating now this month and last month too, sorry no pix, but sal has not hybernated last year so is he steril!??
well it did not seem to slow his labito down I guess I will find out in 4 months, nagini did give birth , but when I got her she was also with babies,
so when she did give birth the babies were so small , she had 10 and all were perfict and alive .
so we gathered them up and helped them out side where we let them go .
to hard to feed.
she is now totaly tamed and eats from my hand she even drinks warer from the tip of my finger, will get a pix of this sometime soon. just amazing how cool they are . have to get some new pix of them but both are hansome little critters (common brown snakes).
oh while I was holding them both they began to pulse and do this very slight jurkie head movement it was the strangest sensation , like a vibration caused by sound almost , but not.. has any one ever seen this or felt there snakes courting each other before???
bye
michelle

[jitami]

Michelle, no clue on the vibration... makes me wonder if it was part of the mating activities... what have they been eating? The only garter to ever show up on my door step likes to strike, too

[adamanteus]

Hi Michelle. It's good to hear from you.
Last week while I was cleaning the tetrataenia tank, I had the male and female in my hand at the same time. He has been courting her for a few days, and didn't cease when I picked them up.... it is indeed a strange sensation in your hand!

[salzar]

hi ya , yea there not shy at all and frequently do this, they sleep together and he lets her eat first as well.
they eat mostly slugs and worms, there spoiled , enjoy baths and much attention.
hand snakes you know..
heeee haaa to funny
bye
and feels good to be back , my pc kicked the bucket and had to get something elce took some time$$$$$ you get it...
bye
michelle

[guidofatherof5]

Welcome back!

[Charlet_2007]

well what i thought it was it wasnt i miss read your post lmao i have no clue now lol

[infernalis]

Wow, None of my brown snakes have ever mated in my hands.

Let's see, they have eaten, slept, barfed, pooped, musked and bit, but NEVER had "relations" while being held.

[salzar]

ohhh no, they were not maiting in my hand just puttin on the moves like ,...
hey you come here often type of stuff,
they waite till there in the tank and under the cover of the fauna .
but you can tell that they are in the mood, the vib that they give off is kinda like a vibration like you would get from a sound wave the vibration is very simular to
an osolating feeling and that funky head bobbing and very close eye to eye contact.
they love each other....
auuuuhhhhh
got to love them there to cute!!
bye
michelle

[ssssnakeluvr]

I have had one occasionally vibrate their tail like rattlers....defense mechanism....if in dry leaves, sounds similar

[infernalis]

Somewhere I have a picture of a Dekayi acting like a tiny little rattle snake.

I picked him up, and he coiled right up, formed an "S" like he was going to strike, and shook his tail in my hand.

It was cute.