I am very interested in knowing what successful techniques you use to measure the length of your garter snakes? My snakes are all wild caught and I would like to track their length and weight unfortunately, trying to get a good measure of them seems to stress them out.

Thinking I would be clever I taped clear angled plastic over a yard stick thinking the snakes would just crawl through the little "cave" I created. That led to challenges both getting them in and then getting them back out again. I know that seems a bit silly but I was hoping for an easy and accurate way to quickly measure the snakes. Please share what you guys do. Thanks