Gertie's Gravid!

[Zephyr]

Poor gal is trembling so bad, she can't even type anymore.....

Perhaps she's having a seizure?
Snake overload? lol

[Garter_Gertie]

Isn't it great!! When I first got my puget sound boy, it was like, I couldn't stop staring at him. It was SO unreal. That blue and black thing I had seen so many pics of was ACTUALLY in my room! Now I am getting three more this coming week. =D

You will become addicted Gertie...

Rockster, I've so enjoyed you being with me and hanging in there while I went beserko. Yeah. just the way you described it. I looked at Peepers and Jeepers pics at work this past week and then today I kept thinking it was a weird dream or I was nuts.

YOU GO, GIRLFIEND, with you new snakes! I understand the *sparklies* you've got and why! I want to hear ALL ABOUT THEM!!!

[Garter_Gertie]

Poor gal is trembling so bad, she can't even type anymore.....

MK if they seem as if they are adapting well, I'd say your OK taking them to work.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Since they and I are attached at the umbilicus (sp?) and I can't take the Pugs...

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will take me boys with tomorrow! And I won't have to hurry home from work to be with them as I'll HAVE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!

Much thanks, Gran'pa!

I'll call Dave so he can have a temp home set up for them.

BBIAB

[GartersRock]

It was cool "being there" Gertie!!! =D

And the other thing wierd when you finally have that snake in the room with you I have noticed. Is that when you look at them. It's like they are crystal clear and stand out so oddly. And when you focus on them it's so strange, like you can't take it in fast enough... I have always found that odd. I like taking my eyes off them and the looking back. Over and over. SOOO weird! lol!! I guess that is why we call ourselves obsessed!!

Yeah! About the puget sound girls!! I have been looking for an adult female blue puget sound for about 2 years now with no luck!! I FINALLY found one through a want ad here... And I am getting "3"!!! 3 year old females!!! AHHHH!!!! OMG, OMG! So I FREAK out. But I didn't have the cash just yet. So he held them for me for about a month. And I have the money now and I hope to get them next week!!! WEEE! I am so darn excited everytime I think about it I get butterflys. And I am checking my email every 10 seconds to see if he can ship them next week. Blah!!! My boy is finally gonna get some girls! They already have names of course... Rachel, Silvie and Mikil. lol! All from the Ted Dekker Circle Series books (my fav author). I haven't seen pics of them. Which I think is even more exciting... It'll be a big suprise! Whoo!
Another thing I find funny. One of the girls has a scar on her back. She is from the infamous "Bob" but is a long term captive. I haven't even seen her yet and I feel a special spot for her for those two reasons. lol! I am such a pathetic softy. I also have a thing for retired racing greyhounds with missing eyes, legs etc. and that have scars all over. Yeah I know. But they are just SOO special!!
But yeah.. Bascially I CAN'T wait for them to get here and will be posting pics as soon as they are here!

Oh, yeah. AND I am getting 1.1 BABY flames from Tina! They are SOO cute!
AND I will be getting 2.2 Sooty Babies!! OMG!! Every waking moment will be spent with all my precious little snakies!! Uh oh.... I am becoming that "snake lady" all my friends joke about. Who cares! They are all MINE.

Enthusiastic enough?? =D

[Garter_Gertie]

I was NOT shaking or having a seizure, you bozos! I had wee little yearlings in my hand when I was typing that! I was typing one handed.

Just talked to Dave. He will have a sterlized tank for me, I'll bring substrate and a swimming pool, AND THE BOYS WILL GO TO WORK WITH ME TOMMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!

I'll use them in the program but won't let anyone touch them. I'll just hold them and show. They're not ready and/or tame enuff for folks to be poking at them. I'll tell about how they're from NY and how they're different from Winnie, but the same.

But... nobuddy but Muzzer will touch. Though, I'll have to let Jo, who did Ripley's soak and took his skin off, touch and cuddle. Else she'd kill me.

But the visitors? Nope. My Boys aren't ready for that yet. But they will be someday!

[GartersRock]

I get SOO nervous when people touch my snakies... I rarely allow it...

Have fun at work with them Gertie!

[crzy_kevo]

man i wish i had a pair of puget sounds your so lucky you can problably make good money off that too
think about it if your male mates with all of them that is a lot of babies

[GartersRock]

Yep!! Added bonus there... Can't wait till I have plenty of puget babies to go around!! =D

[Garter_Gertie]

Geez, Rockster! I feel brain dead compared to what YOU'RE going through!

Yeah. Softies. Mayo's a rescue Pigglette. What can I say?

I've heard o'Bob... Not much. Just heard similar to what you said. I guess I should stay away from him?

You're rite about the looking, looking away, looking again. I've looked at an empty tank for 2+ weeks and now when I look and see one o'the Boys, I almost do a double take. And I look at them and STARE. They are SO BEAUTIFUL, so PERKY, so GARTERY, so MINE... I can't believe it and believe they're real. That's why I HAD to hold them so soon. Just to know for real they're here, they're mine and I've got them.

I'm not ready to breed yet. But I must say, after looking at wee Jeepers, my heart aches to have my own kids.

James, Stefan, don't read any o'this. I know James is gnashing his teeth and you, Stefan, are pulling your hair out. But... I'm not you. I LOVE these guys. They ARE my pets/babies. I'm not going to make xcuses for it. I've just a different perspective/mindset than you guys have.

Yes, I kiss my Boys. Yes, I hug them. They are wonderful, blessed, fantastic, gorgeous, fabulous creatures and I'm going to acknowlege them in the way *I* know. Not in their way.

[infernalis]

#1. I don't think Pugets are genetically compatible with the others

#2. even if they were, no one would ever dilute the genetics of those beautiful Pugets, it would be a mess.

I had to pass on a chance to buy a gravid female Puget, it was Bob who had it listed..

Puget is its own species of garter. Flame, Melanistic, albino, silver & snow are all some of the passable variations of a species, for instance Easterns (T. s. sirtalis), so crossing those is widely accepted practice.

Crossing a Puget with say an eastern or a radix is rather unheard of, and if someone succeeded, I wouldn't buy any.

My favorite 2 Garters, Puget & Flame

closely followed by Thamnophis everythingus