Pics of my couchii

[Hornets23]

Lol..thats really cute..nice snake.....well perhaps nice wasn't a good word choice, but she is very pretty!

[tyflier]

Thanks everyone, for the comments! I've never really paid any attention to gartersnakes, even though I have seen many very pretty ones. I'm not really sure why, but I guess I just focused more on other colubrids. But this little girl just entertains the heck outta me. She's always cruising or fishing, or chillin' in the branches. She's really, really coole...

And than I found out that garters actually seem to prefer communal habitation. Heck, how you can you beat that? So I'm getting her a friend at the end of the month...

[jitami]

And than I found out that garters actually seem to prefer communal habitation. Heck, how you can you beat that? So I'm getting her a friend at the end of the month...

hehe... and so it begins...

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

And I already know at least one other member from many, many other places on the web...aSnakeLovinBabe and I go way back...don't we Shannon.....

haha... yes!!! definitely

I have already seen this lovely garter on two other forums... shes adorable!!

so glad to see that I FINALLY was able to rub my disease off on you... it took a while but you finally got a garter!!!! and now you shall never stop wanting more garters... muhahahaha...!

[prattypus]

See, and I still haven't been bit.

[Stefan-A]

hehe... and so it begins...

The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.

[Snaky]

Very nice couchii

I've heard from others that there is a trick to let them stop biting you. They wear these rubber medical gloves when they handle the snakes. The snake bites the glove and find it repulsive. After a while they didn't bite anymore. Maybe it can help you, I just heard it and have nver needed it myself.

[Garter_Gertie]

And than I found out that garters actually seem to prefer communal habitation. Heck, how you can you beat that? So I'm getting her a friend at the end of the month...

"Another one bites the dust. And another one gone, another one gone. Another one bites the dust."

[tyflier]

Very nice couchii

I've heard from others that there is a trick to let them stop biting you. They wear these rubber medical gloves when they handle the snakes. The snake bites the glove and find it repulsive. After a while they didn't bite anymore. Maybe it can help you, I just heard it and have nver needed it myself.

The biting doesn't bother me one bit. I have lots of kings that think I'm half mouse, so I'm fairly OK with being bitten. She will never bite as hard as a full grown, 5 1/2', hungry male Florida king with a bad attitude. Her bites really just aren't a concern...

I've dealt with a LOT of feisty snakes over the last 20 years, and I always found thin leather gloves to work the best for the really bitey ones...like bicycle gloves or paintball gloves...protects the flesh from big bites, and the snakes don't seem to like it...

[Garter_Gertie]

But be careful to let the snake pull away from the gloves and not yank back. Don't want to hurt snake/teeth and possibly have to deal with mouth rot.

It's been suggested to me by my Hoggy breeder to never use gloves due to the very great possibility of tooth loss. (shrugs shoulders)

I don't know. I can see both sides. I'll go w/o gloves until I think the danger to me is greater than the possible injury to my snakelettes. As I have the ability to sit for a long time waitng for snigglettes to withdraw from either me or gloves if I should use them.

So, it's not something I do - use gloves... yet, but wanted to toss out.