hello all i am new here and have been looking around and have not seen any really good sites for garter snakes and i stumbled accross this one while using google there seems to be alot of knowledgable and experienced people here. i only got into this since my 4 year old daughter was camping with us and my nephew found a garter snake she got so excited and asked if we could bring her home so i agreed it was ok for a month or 2 and then return it to the wild again well i came home one night a few weeks after bringing the snake home and to my surprise was greeted with 10 more babies in the tank well i thought it was just a really healthy snake but it was pregnant so i did what i was originally planning i released momma snake 2 months after i caught her and some friends who have snake experience had asked if they could have a few so i thought what the heck sure. i even kept a few my self and plan on building a bigger enclosure for them cause of all the snakes i have seen and handled garters are the best bu8t to sum it all up great site and i had great success with all the babies as they are all still alive and healthy and active and i frequently check up on all of them its nice to see a community like this with such dedication to what some people call a lesser snake give the garter a chance they are way cooler than most snakes around.