you couldn't write this stuff

[PINJOHN]

After recently seeing an advert asking for a new home for a pair of garter snakes i told my self that they were all most certainly checkered's [the red eared terrapins of the garter word] and as i have four large adults checkered's already and two broods amounting to double numbers still to be placed [no hurry for this i am really enjoying growing them on] i thought i should pass on this,i tell my self that it's more than likely that they will end up in a loving knowledgeable home and go on to live long contented lives,..... but that other voice is saying but how can you be sure isn't the fact that they are free likely to attract the wrong people,..... yes but what about the tick list you are preparing for Chris's thread you don't have unlimited space do you really want to use it up on more checkered's,..... the upshot is i predictably went for it and began to compose an email there was a small blurry picture of a single garter snake with the advert which seemed to bare out my identification, while doing my one fingered typing my son Christopher comes into the snake room and i tell him all about it, he suggests i make the picture bigger just to confirm identity...., just how do i do that, i ask,... clicking on the photo he ask's me in his most exasperated voice just how many times am i going to have to show you these really basic functions ............ but i wasn't really listening i was starring at the much enlarged photo THAT was most definitely not a checkered, with a rapidly beating heart i typed that email as fast as my one fingered style allowed and pressed the send key.
it was only later that i realized that he had probably pasted a garter picture lifted off the internet and they would still most likely be checkered's....... after waiting a couple of days i received a call last night, would i come and pick them up, the guy explained that while buying some lizards from a lady she had virtually pleaded with him to take the snakes and after taking them on he discovered that they were much more active and demanding than the corn snakes he had kept, so they had to go.
the conclusion of this long winded tale is that i picked the snakes up this morning and i can now confirm that miracles do still happen, i am now the owner of two of the most most most beautiful RADIX you are ever likely to set eyes on !! WHO'S THE DADDY !! YES!!! YES!!! YES!!!

[infernalis]

Congrats mate.

So where are the pics for us? huh, come on now we need pics!!!

[PINJOHN]

Congrats mate.

So where are the pics for us? huh, come on now we need pics!!!

yes i know i should really have had some photo's ready but as you know, i am to ,computers what Hitler was to world peace and my kids are not very forthcoming in helping this techno deficient dad to strut his stuff on the site, however Christopher has moments ago made a firm promise to not only take the photo's [i don't own a camera] but get them on the site for me, the bad news is his memory card has taken a walk and he says my youngest daughter is probably responsible for this so we await her arrival home, due to my long experience with these sibling borrowing situations the smart money is on an episode occurring not unlike that war i made reference to earlier in the post, so watch this space...... while im on this subject my daughter put a photo of my long gone Irish wolfhound on my gallery i would like to put him in the other pets thread but don't know how HELP

[chris-uk]

You lucky *&%^$£$.

I'm stoked for you John. Really. Yes. I am happy for you. You see by doing nice things you occasionally get something nice back.

[EasternGirl]

Congrats John...and I am very glad that the snakes came to a home with someone who knows how to care for them and will give them a good and happy life! Get us those pics soon!

[PINJOHN]

You lucky *&%^$£$.

I'm stoked for you John. Really. Yes. I am happy for you. You see by doing nice things you occasionally get something nice back.

thanks Chris, she is a beautiful big female and he although a lot smaller is old enough to mate, so if they fancy each other next year then you can scratch radix from you to get list

[chris-uk]

If they reproduce we'd be more than happy to help you with homes for the babies. Eventually we hope to be able to offer you Cuitzeos so that there's more 2-way traffic, although Lacrimosa needs a bit more weight first. Like everyone else, we're waiting for the photos, if you delay we may just conclude that you have the only ugly garters on the forum .

[guidofatherof5]

I missed this post and I apologize.
This has been a good day. Good friends calling to wish my family a Happy Thanksgiving. Finding a wild radix in the backyard.
Now, John has a pair of radixes.
A good day indeed.

[katach]

That is awesome!!! I so glad you gave them a home! Congrats!!

[snakehill]

Pics please John!!!