Why do you keep them?

[Josh]

Garters.
I am always asked that.
"Why do you own those dinky little snakes?"
i say because they are so exciting
why do youi keep garters?

[enigma200316]

Garters.
I am always asked that.
"Why do you own those dinky little snakes?"
i say because they are so exciting
why do youi keep garters?

I get the same Josh, and they also say why not something like pythons or whatever........I simply say I love all reptiles, and I have kept those other snakes before and just prefer to keep Garters now...........

[Josh]

I mean dont get my wrong pythons and what not are beatiful.
but they just sit there eat and poop

[Zephyr]

Story time!

2 years ago, while herping on a disputably unprotected part of the local forest, my mother "ran over" *not quite* a small male garter snake. We had been looking for snakes that day, and this one had run right out for us. So, as my first wild snake capture (My actual first snake, a rough green, had been killed by a cat in my old treehouse), I decided to keep him. I set him up in a tank in the house. A few days later, he was gone. I was somewhat sad. After 3 days, I found him chilling on the cover to my fish tank in my basement. So he was moved outside. Me, being naive at the time, gave him only crickets. The months passed, his captivity with me being from June 17 to January 17, each day passing without him ever having eaten... And on that fateful day, after I finally discovered that he would eat fish, I decided to give him a rinsing. However, I was not aware that I had turned the water on a little too warm... He'd never struck at me before, and I knew for sure something bad had happened. 15 minutes later, he was dead, and I was literally crying my eyes out. I swore in the middle of my sobbing that I would avenge him and literally stated that I would erect an outdoor pen in his honor and breed hundreds of garter snakes. So, two years of experience and knowledge later, here I am, proud to continue his legacy.
RIP
Scooter G. Wheel

[MayorOgden]

Honestly, I got my garter after I went to the reptile store and they didn't have kenyan sand boas in stock. I saw the young, active garters and said "what the hey." He's been so entertaining ever since! His personality is a little more complicated than I thought it would be. I love that he loves to explore so much. He's never boring!

[Josh]

Honestly, I got my garter after I went to the reptile store and they didn't have kenyan sand boas in stock. I saw the young, active garters and said "what the hey." He's been so entertaining ever since! His personality is a little more complicated than I thought it would be. I love that he loves to explore so much. He's never boring!

Those are the bottom lines

[EdgyExoticReptiles]

I love Kenyan sand boas, there soo cool

Honestly, I got my garter after I went to the reptile store and they didn't have kenyan sand boas in stock. I saw the young, active garters and said "what the hey." He's been so entertaining ever since! His personality is a little more complicated than I thought it would be. I love that he loves to explore so much. He's never boring!

[EdgyExoticReptiles]

Oh yea some of my friends were like u breed garter snakes? there so puny. So i showed them a pic of my pugets and there like woah can i buy one?

[Tori]

I grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and spent my childhood roaming the woods. I had been taught from birth that snakes are evil! "The only good snake is a dead one!" And I never questioned it as a child. But as an adult I started taking my boys when they were very young into the mountains, just hiking like I had always done and of course they had to catch everything that moved. My husband was terrified of snakes so I couldn't bring any home, but I did let the boys sneak and keep a couple for a few weeks at a time. After my divorce I moved here to Michigan and it finally hit me while hiking that I could keep any "kritter" I wanted to now and took home the first garter snake I could find. After that I was hooked. I also kept other snakes, but none were as much fun as the garters and so I now have still have two corn snakes, but the rest are garters. Other snakes are just bad tempered or boring.

[SpyrotheGartersnake]

i like garters because unlike some snakes they like to be active unlike ball pythons who just like to mostly lay around. another reason is because of the unique colors they come in