Hello there,

I've recently acquired a common Garter Snake and am trying to get it to eat. From what I researched, they seem to start well on worms (this is a young snake, around 10 inches) so I bought a small box of night crawlers from petco.

Well, the boxes are sealed so I couldn't look inside...it was advertised as being live, but they said they keep them in the fridge? They say they are "hibernating", so anyway, I got the box and decided to give feeding a go. Opened the box up and none of the worms look anyway remotely close to live...in fact many of them are smashed up/squashed. I picked out the best looking one out of the box, offered it to the snake, zero interest.

Any ideas?

I have no past history on the animal so I cant tell you what it has been eating before.

Any help greatly appreciated,