Hello from the northeast/northwest USA.....

[Repfanatic]

Hi. My name is Brook. I live in western New York....right now. In the next week we'll be moving to Washington state. I joined this site almost a year ago, but puters died and the bookmark along with them. I'm back now and plan on it staying that way. I just want to let you know how much I like this site. It's very informative and not full of stupid leading stupid just waiting for the arguments to come. I don't have too much experience with garters, but my boyfriend and I have been researching them for about 2 years now. We kept a few w/c last spring and released them back where we found them in August. It was a fun experience. We got an albino checkered garter from BHB reptiles about a month ago. We're enjoying her very much. We have a large collection of various snake and lizard species......and my Chilean rose hair tarantula. lol I've always been fascinated with reptiles and am getting my 7 year old daughter to see the wonder in them also. Anyway, It's nice to meet you all. We'll talk soon.

[Tori]

Welcome from Michigan, Brook. It's great to see someone that takes the time to find out information about a reptile before getting one. Too many times it starts out with an impulse purchase and then scrambling to find out how to take care of it. Though, I don't really have room to talk since my first garter was a w/c that I found.

[drache]

hi Brook, welcome back
I remember you

[Sid]

Welcome again, Brook. Nice to have you back.

[Repfanatic]

Thanks everybody. It's nice to be back. I've been on here most of the day catching up on the million threads I missed. lol

It's great to see someone that takes the time to find out information about a reptile before getting one. Too many times it starts out with an impulse purchase and then scrambling to find out how to take care of it.

Yes. I see this a lot. And in order to not follow in the footsteps of these people I do research on every animal I am even semi interested in. Thankfully I didn't have to impulse buy here. Our reptile shop let us put a deposit down, get the enclosure ready, and then come back for the animal. I hope I can find a place like that in Washington.

I have one reptile that was a COMPLETE impulse buy.....a Burton's legless lizard. I could not, and still can't, find much info on these guys, so I had to go off of what I could dig up about Australia's climate and the few research papers I found online. I've had the little guy for over a year now and he's a happy camper.

[olive oil]

Cool lizard

[Garter_Gertie]

Nice to have you back, Brook. I remember your picture and moving post from earlier this year.

[Stefan-A]

Welcome back.

[guidofatherof5]

Great having you back. You're right about this forum.

[anji1971]

Welcome back!
I like that Legless Lizard. Cool critter!