Hello from New York!

[ZZTalon]

Watkins Glen is right up the street from me. Syracuse is a 2 hour drive.

Nice! I went there once years ago, I remember the waterfalls. It's on my to-do list when my budget allows and I can get up their again during herping season. :-D One of my hobbies is working on a website (NY Wildlife) I started to try an document wildlife (I tend to focus on herps or birds, unless I can get a camera trap up) locally. It's always a work in progress, and I'm nowhere near an expert in web design, but it's fun.

I meet so many kids that can tell you all about polar bears and tigers, but have no idea what's in their own backyard. I run a tent at festivals (under the website name) and live animals are a big draw. I've got native turtles, but recently started bringing my corns, even thought hey aren't native, the reactions people have to snakes seem so much stronger and more emotional (whether positive or negative). One of my biggest pet peeves is how quick people are to kill a harmless snake for no reason, (often water or garter snakes!) whether due to ignorance or trying to be being macho/stupid. So I'm working on some fun things to get people informed and to care, at least in my very small corner of the world. ;-)

[ZZTalon]

Hello and welcome to the forum! I'm in NYC

Cool! Not far at all, I'm at the Bronx Zoo and Museum of Natural History all the time. Ever go to the White Plains shows?

[Invisible Snake]

Cool! Not far at all, I'm at the Bronx Zoo and Museum of Natural History all the time. Ever go to the White Plains shows?

Yeahh, I didn't go the one recently, but a friend of mine went and he told me saw some checkereds and "blue garters" for sale lol

[mikem]

Welcome to the forum!

[ZZTalon]

Yeahh, I didn't go the one recently, but a friend of mine went and he told me saw some checkereds and "blue garters" for sale lol

Yeah, there's one table in the new section. They bring Pugets, Plains. There was a little more variety at the last one. It was starting to get a little boring, it seemed like every table was ball Pythons and Western hogs.

[-MARWOLAETH-]

Welcome to the Thamily

[hjelte]

Sweden says welcome!

[chris-uk]

Welcome aboard.

Great to see garters used to educate youngsters, and it sounds like you should be a good contributor to discussions when they turn to genetics.

[Light of Dae]

Welcome here!!

Why weren't you my teacher when I was in school lol I asked if I could bring a Garter to my class for show and tell and was told it would never happen :P

[Greg'sGarters]

You need a natives permit in NY? In NJ we can own Easterns without a permit. NJ is ridiculous, we need a permit for Rat Snakes, but we don't need one for an ostrich! Not joking!