[Electrokate]

Welcome! I too envy your right to the SF garter though I can actually say I don't really care if my garters are SF or concinnus as long as they are red and black. (: I like the more checkerboard appearance of some of the others too.

Can you get California red sideds? They are also nice. Maybe someone from this list can mail you a few snakes (not the SF of course), I don't know what the legal issues are with that but I also breed killifish and we have successfully mailed fish to your country as well as received them. Long as they are not CITES listed it is fine.

Here people outside the small group of garter enthusiasts generally view us as kind of weird for not keeping large snakes. They think garters are for beginners and kids. Is it that way there or do you get respect? I don't really understand it, that is like saying parrots are more cool than finches. Of course bird people do that too. I like animals that can't harm my other animals if they escape since I keep fish and birds, and that can be housed humanely easily. The fact that they can fairly easily be bred is nice too!

Kate