[GarterGuy]

Yeh, Terry, babies are really tough. You have to realize though that very few of them would have survived out in the wild. The pressures of just finding food, water, and shelter; combined with predation take out a lot of them. I think that's really why garters seem to have so many babies, because few of them actually survive to carry on to the next generation. It's just that we figure since they're not in the wild that they'll all survive and I honestly wonder if some of them just aren't made to make it.