[Faunaofthenorth]

Actually about the squirrel thing, when i first caught her next door at my neighbor's, she had a HUGE!! lump in her and my neighbor said that a few days before, he had seen a mother squirrel chirping and lunging and jerking at that snake. He told me he watched it slither down from a small tree that had very condensed and intwined branches where he had seen a squirrel's nest, and when she came down she had a huge lump in her and it was at least 8 inches long according to him. AND!!! last summer i went to helena, montana and me and my family went to a ghost town, and the DNR agent told me she and a bunch of co-workers a day before, were walking by one of the creeks when she spotted a giant garter snake (not the species), and it had a live squirrel down its mouth, about half way she says, and i didnt believe her until a man who was there showed me a crappy resolution picture of it and I'D be DAMNED!!! yup it was...only it wasnt a full grown squirrel, but that snake was at least 6 feet long...so giant common garters do exist other than the two that i captured. i wish i could have caughten it or at least taken some video.