Questions about our first garter snake

[Char361979]

THIS PARTICULAR GEORGE CLOONEY SWEEPS AND MOPS OUT IN THE LOCAL CORNER STORE

Watch that corner shop's business increase after that comment!!

[Mrs N1ntndo]

I call a baby a baby from when its born till there not vry tiny any more. Then Idk what I would call them after that...lol. Your snake is very pretty. Binky is such a cool name too. I like it.

[chris-uk]

I call a baby a baby from when its born till there not vry tiny any more. Then Idk what I would call them after that...lol. Your snake is very pretty. Binky is such a cool name too. I like it.

Thanks Randi. I guess there's variation in what they get called at different ages/sizes and there's no hard and fast rules. I think at 32cm (about 13 inches to you guys... I have to think every time when I read posts from your side of the Atlantic when they mention lengths and convert the inches to cm).

Binky is the name of Death's horse in Terry Pratchett's Discworld books, we picked the name before we started to realise Binky might be a "she" -

Binky
Binky is Death's steed, named so by Death because it is "a nice name".[5] He is a living horse; Death tried a skeletal steed, but kept having to "stop and wire bits back on".[4] Death also tried a fiery steed, but it repeatedly set his barn and his robe on fire.
Binky is rather more intelligent than most horses and is a pure, milky white (it is noted in some novels that Binky is an exception to the biological rule of "grey" equines).
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Binky gains part of his powers by sharing one of Death's qualities: he's so much "realer" than ordinary things such as walls, great distances, or time that he can simply ignore them.

I think Binky has picked up some personality traits from her name, she's so much realler than ordinary animals that she can simply ignore us. Unless there's food on offer.

[Char361979]

She's been out again... saw me and scarpered... hohum, the dance continues. I think she just hates me, doesn't seem to react quite as violently to Chris.

[guidofatherof5]

Some snakes do have preferences.
I have a big female radix that won't let my daughter Gabby touch her.
It she tries to touch her "Big Girl" gives her a bit or she'll strike at her.
It's still too early to tell what you've got going with your snake.
Best of luck.

[kibakiba]

She's still getting used to you, give her some time to warm up to you.
I have a snake, Snap, she's still scared of me after a year of owning her. After a month of owning her, giving her time to settle in, you can put your hand in the tank and don't move it. Eventually she'll get used to your hand being in the tank and start trusting you

[chris-uk]

I think Char is disheartened because Binky will tolerate my hand in her tank, and will come out to sniff at my fingers. I think she'll get used to use both.
She's going to need to get used to another garter as well, as I've spoken to John about taking one of his brood (a normal checkered) on the 18th Sept. We're on a slippery slope aren't we?

[guidofatherof5]

"Just one more" most of us have been there, done that.

Maybe this Checkered you're getting from John will look like George Klooney too.

[RedSidedSPR]

Sweet! That could help tremendously with the calmness. I got my first baby this year, and realized after a while of him being jumpy, that another might help. So I got a second one. Within one day, he was out more, and much calmer. He just felt safer with a buddy. 'course, now he's got 2 more...

[katach]

"Just one more" most of us have been there, done that.

Yes, most definitely. We started out with our 2 pugets then we got our 3 NWs and then Willow had her babies. We went from 2 to 5 to 13! Love it though!!

Also, going there, doing that...
Getting a male Puget from Michael when we have the room.