I just have a question for everyone out there. We have a newly acquired garter, about 16 inches long that my daughter caught on Sunday. Today, I took her out of the terrarium and put her in a rubbermaid tote with her own supply of worms and tilapia pieces to see if she was interested. No food was consumed, however, when I took her back out, I waited for her to climb up to the top before slowly grasping her, all was well for about 3 seconds. Then she twisted what she could of her head around and bit me on the thumb. I was waiting for her to let go, which she did, only to re-position herself in a full, open mouth bite that sort of looked like chewing.

I told her that that wasn't very nice, waited for her to let go and released her back into her new home with Stewie. Does everyone else get chomped on as often? Or do I just taste good to garter snakes?