hey everyone! my name is Beth, I live in Michigan. I've been familiar with garter snakes for about 7 years (since we moved to the boonies....). I've kept a few here and there, but always let them go at the end of summer. This year however I have gotten particularly interested in seriously owning garter snakes, so I went to Petco, and got myself a couple.

The little one I think is a regular garter, and a male. Its really jumpy, I don't think its used to people..

The larger one has very unusual markings (to me anyway) but is incredibly tame. The dorsal stripe is black, with two bronzeish colored stripes on each side. ...does that sound like any type of garter?

I'm not very familiar with using forums, but I would like to get some pics up as soon as I figure out how. I've already learned so much from this forum I'm sure it wont take me long lol.