Quote Originally Posted by aSnakeLovinBabe View Post
there is only one subspecies of sirtalis native to Georgia... easterns! Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis... so if you can keep other subspecies, then a red or a blue garter is a real possibility for you. Otherwise you are rather limited of you want red or blue... the vast majority of red and blue garters occurs in sirtalis! There are red coast garters and red plains, but they are rather hard to come by...
I am not the slightest bit concerned about it. I live in the country where the Fish and Game wardens are busy catching poachers and other nere-do-wells, they sure as heck aren't gonna care if some woman wants to keep one little captive bred pet garter snake hatched in another state! I am equally sure there are no "garter snake sniffing dogs" patrolling the Fed X shipments arriving in Georgia.

Now of course if someone was gathering up lots of wild garters to sell that would be another story and I would hope the Fish and Game folks would take an interest and protect our native species.