A friend of mine had told me that it was illegal to own garter snakes in Delaware...so I was always keeping my girls on the downlow...I was talking to my mother about it recently, considering my little snake family has been getting bigger and she asked me if I had ever actually looked the law up and read it to see what it says....so I decided that I would. Turns out, there is no law against owning garter snakes in DE...there is a law against owning poisonous snakes, boas, and pythons. My girls are not outlaws...lol! Guess I'll be having that reptile room one day....