Hello well I wanted to ask about my garter snake, I'm a first time snake owner and have had him for over a year now. Quite a while back I dropped him in the bathroom when I was re-filling his water and he managed to slip behind the bath. When he was falling I managed to lower him to the ground so I know he did not fall a long distance but I wish it hadn't have happened I knew he'd seemed slightly strange that day I don't know why but I just had a feeling... I managed to persuade him to come out from out of the bath after over an hour by waving a mouse in front of him and luring him into a special snake bag I had so I could trap him since I didn't want to handle him since he was after the mouse and was going to eat it (I didn't want him to sick it back out). After that he became really wierd. At first he started striking at me a lot. Then the hissing came. He never used to hiss before! I was really worried about him and checked him for injuries but I couldn't find anything wrong. He became really defencive around me after a while and every time I picked him up he'd thrash a little and sometimes "shoot poop". I'm worried I'm hurting him and I can't handle him anymore without being bitten at least once/being hissed at or him trying to escape by "thrashing". Also after he stops "thrashing" he'll become deadly still for a long while then he'll suddunly "lunge" at me and hiss. What does this mean? Because of this I am starting to handle him less and less and I really love him and don't want him to become wild completly! I need a solution to get him back to the way he was! Please can anyone help me? Maybe there's something I missed? This behaviour has been going on for months now and it's not letting up. He used to be super calm and now suddenly he's become aggressive I don't know what to do! He was a really nice snake before, is there anyway to get him back to the way he used to be? I wouldn't mind the odd bite, but everytime I try to handle him is just way too bites for a small problem so I'd seriously like to get this sorted or I feel he may become stressed and die from it! :'( He also shys away from me. Sometimes he won't but most of the time he hides all the time and if I get close to the viv he'll draw back. I'm really worried, can anyone help?