neat! I caught a snake once with my older bro about 10 years ago in CA. didn't get a pic, though, :(

Once i saw a bigger one, but i just left it where it was and then it wiggled away. ;P

You have a kind face.

Daaawwww, thanks.

The snake didn't think so

heh
well you DID kinda snatch em' up off the ground. xD

Well no to him you were some big predator trying to eat it. Nipping is their only defense aside from some verieties of garters that use av ery strong musk scent that they secret when molested in any way. These guys are in abundance her in western washington. Nice pic btw.

Hehehh aww the snake its sooo cute :P

Cool snake, and I second failcakes assertion about yer face. Sankes are awesome. I have caught and handled racers,bulls, rubber boas, and garters. I have only been nipped and bitten by garters and baby bulls. All the others first instincts were to flee into the rocks from where they came from. The most coll snakes I have handled were the bulls and Rubber Boas. I have even seen two rattlesnakes in the wild in eastern Washington but I was not about to go playing around with them. Thanks for sharing with us have most excellent day!

Aww :3

:D grats on your catch! I was the same way with lizards out here in FL...they are all over the dang place and it STILL took me a year to finally be quick enough to catch one! :P Very cool tho! Snakes aren't bad...its the gigantic banana spiders I can't stand! XD

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As a tip for the lizards in FL, since I worked there for my externship and caught a ton of them:

Approach them from an angle that they can't see you from.

If they're sunning on a pole or tree, memorize where they're at from a distance and approach with the object blocking you from their vision. When you get within arm's reach (quietly, of course. They've got sharp ears) whip your hand around to where you remembered them at.

Just bring your hand around with enough speed that you can nab them, but not so hard that they're injured.

That's a pretty snake! Lovely markings, too! He seems to be a variety of Garter that I've never seen before. I'm mostly just familiar with the slinky Red Garters from back home... There's a major breeding-are near where I'm from, a place called Narcisse in Manitoba, where the Red Garter lives and migrates to in order to breed. Imagine literally hundreds of thousands of snakes all massing in huge mating-balls, trying to get a little somethin' somethin' with the ladies... Very cool to see.

awww it's cute! and, yeah, they do nip a bit... but it's the musk they try to rub on you that really bothers me

I grew up with garter snakes -- they had a nest at the bottom of our driveway. They can be nippy. I always had to hold them behind the head to avoid bites.

Pretty things tho'. Glad you got your snake

Hmm, cool snake. Kinda looks like the ones out west here. I caught one once, but let go a few days later, it was only about 10 inches, much smaller than yours, it couldn't even bite.

Nice nab!!

your so lucky, i been trying to get a mexican king snake or a corn snake forever, but my dad is scared of snakes ._.

Haha, garter snakes are easy to catch. I get them all over my backyard and have to save a few every year from things like stick traps and mesh. Very docile =P One time, I was watering the garden and a baby one thought the hose was going to attack it. Hilarious stuff.

I can picture it, yeah. Most of the ones I caught back in MD were the docile and easy-going type too.

This one though...Nope! Latched into me a few times and got a bit of blood trickling down my fingers from those tiny little teeth they have.

It was also cute the way it behaved towards the camera. Even though I was the one holding it, when my buddy went to take the shot the snake immediately focused on the camera, and all but ignored my hand. That's why in the picture it's looking straight ahead.

Kinda sounds like my pet gecko. I catch her and she repeatedly grabs onto my hand. Anything else comes near her, and oh man... It's a challenge! Right here, right now. She'll rip it to shreds. Theoretically speaking, of course.

Good shot, though =D good job.

That is a gorgeous garter snake. :3

I know we have plenty of them here, too, but I've only ever seen one or two... that weren't dead, mind you, lol. Great picture, though.

Aww he is so cute!

the moment I saw this: DAWW

Aw, look at the little guy! Nice pic.

Nice, dude. You plan on raising him? or did you release him?

I let the snake go near the campus lake.

woah... you grabbed a snake?! Thank god it was a garter and not a racer, those are meeaaannnnnnn bastards. Trust me I poked one with a stick in those woods and it about came after me; taht is if it wasn't almost a hundred degrees outside that day. XD

D'aw!!! What a beautiful snake!

It's been a while since i've gone out "herping"...blah. Used to do it a lot when I was younger in GA. Usually caught Northern and Midland water snakes at the local park. Was great fun scaring people who didn't think there was any snakes-but it all ways bugged the ever loving hell out of me when people killed them before I could catch them and move them somewhere else. I used to tell people I was majoring in biology and it was illegal to kill the nonvenmous ones-at least, it was...I am not so sure on the specifics anymore. Probably still the same though, considering they still do not allow corn snakes as pets in GA, even if they are captive bred which is really retarded in my opinion since I own some myself.

But yeah, that was a long winded...thing. ANYWHo, again, beautiful catch! I have never caught a garter snake-have been given garter snakes others found but never got one myself. LOL

And bitey...hehehe. I've caught a couple black racers before- such angry ANGRY snakes. LOL So pretty though.

heh i love garter snakes actually its the regular house pet kinds like pythons i tell my friends one rule. If i'm i nthe house and you take that thing out don't expect m,e to be in said house.

I can pride myself on never being bit once catching garter snakes. Managed to nab the tail of a bull snake once but those buggers are really strong!

pretty snake!

Awesome pic. I used to catch garter snakes all the time at summer camp. Only one ever tried to bite me, and it couldn't bite nearly hard enough to hurt... but a whole lot of them sprayed me. Nasty-smelling stuff.

Thanks for the fave, btw!

Cute little snake. ^^

awwww, cute. :)

I snakes.

That's not something I'd want to do unless I knew the snake wasn't venomous...except that I'm definitely no snake expert so I treat them all like they are D:. But if somebody had a pet snake that was ok I'd be excited to hold it. Nice job catching it, though! I imagine the small ones are extra fast.

Garter snakes are pretty distinctive, so they're easy to recognize. And they're non-venomous.

How non-venomous, you ask?

I was more amused than injured when it did this: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2795488/

*swoon* I mean *cough* yeah cute snake >> << >>

if the swoon was....maybe...directed towards me, the snake had other opinions: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/2795488/

Cheeky little thing! And yeah... maybe