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Offline skyarrow

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Little guy
« on: March 16, 2011, 04:54:24 pm »
We are drilling a new well for a filling station and I was behind it talking on the phone to the wahene and I looked down and I almost stepped on this little garder snake man is he pretty


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Re: Little guy
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2011, 04:56:23 pm »
Nice little garter Sterling
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Re: Little guy
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2011, 05:08:06 pm »
Cute little fart  :-*

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Re: Little guy
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2011, 06:02:59 pm »
Quote from: NTD on March 16, 2011, 04:56:23 pm
Nice little garter Sterling
thanx for the spelling I never kn if it had a d or a t in it so I guessed lol
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Re: Little guy
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2011, 06:29:33 pm »
Hey Sterling, wasn't trying to correct ya.  But at least you didn't call it a garden snake.  Some trivial information for you they call them garter snakes because of the striping down their sides.  We don't have a lot of garters where I'm at, so it's a treat when I do find them.  I've got about a 30" in the freezer though, maybe I'll find another roadkilled one to match it up this spring.
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Re: Little guy
« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2011, 06:37:29 pm »
thats one of the few tpes we have in mn
aint seen one in years untill last spring
used to see them over 3ft long all the time when i was a kid

carefull they will bite  ;D
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Re: Little guy
« Reply #6 on: March 16, 2011, 06:46:46 pm »
Thanx for the info Nate we have lots around here my mom use to work at the zoo when I was little and I got to help take care of  the snakes with her and the garter and hog nose snake were my favorite to feed and hold :)
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Re: Little guy
« Reply #7 on: March 16, 2011, 06:48:08 pm »
Hognose are AWESOME.  Do you have those where you are?
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Re: Little guy
« Reply #8 on: March 16, 2011, 07:48:15 pm »
Yep :) there the ones that will play dead lol
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Re: Little guy
« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2011, 07:56:25 pm »
I have captive bred hognoses and as much as I harass them they won't play dead.  We have them here in AZ anyway but they are a bit southeast of me...I've only seen them DOR, haven't gotten to doing a field searching for them yet.
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Re: Little guy
« Reply #10 on: March 16, 2011, 08:20:40 pm »
Cool
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Offline Lee Slikkers

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Re: Little guy
« Reply #11 on: March 16, 2011, 09:56:45 pm »
Quote from: NTD on March 16, 2011, 06:48:08 pm
Hognose are AWESOME.  Do you have those where you are?

We seem to have quite a few Hognose around my place, I am located about 1/2 mile off the shores of Lake MI and it's fairly sandy, scrub type terrain which the Toads love and where there are Toads there are Hognose.  Last year I caught two gorgeous Hog's one was almost a yellow on cream pattern and the other was an orange on tan.

We see a few Garter's as well but it needs to be in areas of a bit more grass, moist creak bottoms. 

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Re: Little guy
« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2011, 11:42:10 pm »
Friend of mine once kept a 10" western hognose for a month...fed it a 6" tiger salamander and found out he had a hog sized appetite!

Garter (or gardener as the locals around here insist on calling them) are pretty dull colored.  Where I came from in North Dakota the light colored stripes down the side were electric yellow!  I once saw one swimming underwater catching minnows and thought I was dreaming it up. 
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Re: Little guy
« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2011, 11:46:42 pm »
Quote from: JW_Halverson on March 16, 2011, 11:42:10 pm
Friend of mine once kept a 10" western hognose for a month...fed it a 6" tiger salamander and found out he had a hog sized appetite!

Garter (or gardener as the locals around here insist on calling them) are pretty dull colored.  Where I came from in North Dakota the light colored stripes down the side were electric yellow!  I once saw one swimming underwater catching minnows and thought I was dreaming it up. 

No way, those tiger Salamanders are so cool!  I raised a few in college when I worked at a Pet Store.

I caught one Garter here last year and it's stripes were pretty yellow as well plus it had some bright red "check" marks in the pattern that were a real knock out.  My German Shorthair likes to "point" snakes so we find any around the house fairly quickly  ;D
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Re: Little guy
« Reply #14 on: March 16, 2011, 11:50:19 pm »
Found a really nice one here at my new place last summer. Looked it up on the net cause I had never seen one like it. Net said it was a scarlet sided one. It had gotten trapped in the trench I was digging for the electrical feed for the shop. finally got it into a bucket and turned it loose in the bushes. Wish I had taken a picture of it. Maybe this summer.

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