Thread: Hi!

**Izzie** · 06-03-2010, 08:55 PM

Hi! Some of my very first pets were easter garters and I loved them. When I was five I built elaborate planted vivariums for them and fed them earthworms and guppies. My parents always had me release them after a few weeks. Now I find myself working for an exotic animal specialty veterinary hospital and my interest in snakes has been renewed. I've been working in veterinary practices since I was in high school, but never with reptiles. I did get to work with some huge rock pythons and other snakes at the zoo as a volunteer and have owned other herps over the years. My favorite snakes remain garters because they are so active and diurnal I think they make much more interesting pets than the boas and pythons. It's easier to reproduce their natural environment because they are native. I've also never had one try to bite me and I handled dozens of wild garters when I was a girl. So that's what brings me here. Thanks for having me.