6 garters for 10 dollars in paper

[ConcinusMan]

We have all at some time or another... or touched a baby bird causing it's mother to throw it from the nest..

Not to change the subject but that is a myth you know.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Not to change the subject but that is a myth you know.

Indeed, this is a myth. I was going to leave it be, because honestly, it's a good myth. It keeps people from screwing around with baby birds!

[Didymus20X6]

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[Millinex]

Well said Shannon, you did a great job of saying what I was essentially trying to say.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

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[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Well said Shannon, you did a great job of saying what I was essentially trying to say.

thank you!

[ssssnakeluvr]

Indeed, this is a myth. I was going to leave it be, because honestly, it's a good myth. It keeps people from screwing around with baby birds!

here in Utah its against state law to disturb a live nest!! I get to tell people once or twice a year they can't bother the nest in their yard until the baby birds are gone...

[brujha]

racoons are just let go after giving them the raw food that they will find in the wild as far away from humans as they can to keep them from garbage and ppl feeding them foxes are harder there instincts are mostly low and they follow u everywhere the one i had went to a petting zoo

[brujha]

i agree everyone makes mistakes and he said he looked it up on internet as to what to feed them but had no intrest in them and that they would get a better home if ppl payed a little money for them. didn't think the post would couse this much contaversy lol
and if it would have been abuse i would have reported it. ....on another note these babies show no intrest in worms or silversides should i try live ..and they were being fed live crickets and live feeder goldfish ..what should i try and how long can they go without eating before i worry ?

[Sonya610]

I respect the opinions and viewpoints of the others on this forum but this case is NOT the same as a kid that catches a wild garter and tries their best to care for their new pet with very little knowledge.

The Grandmother obviously did not care in the slightest about these animals, she simply saw them as a cheap gift that would amuse her grandson for a few weeks or maybe months. A few free snakes, an $8 critter keeper, and $4 in postage makes for weeks of amusement! Not one tiny thought was put into what the animals would go through.

Others may say "but you don't know what that woman was thinking". Oh but we can guess. Six babies??? Six? I guarantee you this woman has seen adult garter snakes, she darn well knew they don't stay tiny forever. She sends SIX off in a critter keeper? If she had any expectation (or even thought about it for a moment) that those snakes to live happily and grow she would realize that critter keeper would be WAY to small for six snakes in a short amount of time.

At that point, assuming Granny believe that her grandson would be very attached to his new pets and devoted to their care, she would have burdened his parents with the expense of buying at least one MUCH larger enclosure, much more food, etc...

How many mothers would say "great idea, little Johnny would LOVE a snake, but don't just send ONE, send HALF A DOZEN as it will be so much fun to go out and buy new cages and equipment and food to care for a whole bunch of them!". They didn't spend any money to buy a small tank for the few they had!

This is not a case of some well-meaning but uneducated person doing their best. These babies were simply "disposable pets" and their lives meant absolutely nothing (well Granny was hoping they lived for a little while and provided some amusement).