hmmmm.... i always thought that they were cool..... then i moved to my new and current house in 6th grade and was in the yard when i discovered dozens of garters!!! i invited a bunch of people over... mostly from my neighborhood... and i took them down there... well most of them were guys and all of them were too afraid to touch them... so they'd call me when they saw them and i'd come and catch them... so i was walking/crawling up the VERY steep hill carrying at least 7 when my foot slipped on the leaves and uncovered a snake very different than the rest.... i carried about 8-10 of them up in-between my fingers at the same time and put them in a bin too large for them to escape... most of them were biters but the strange one (who i later discovered to be a brown snake) was very calm... my dad came home and i brought him to the bin now containing over 20 and pointed out the brown one asking if i could keep it... much to my surprise he said yes!!!!! then i went in and told mom dad said i could keep it and she was so mad.... lol but it worked!!!!


so i guess it was my dad who really got me started!!! maybe that's why i love him so much!!!!!