Garters eating INSECTS!!!

[person365]

Whether or not they recognize them correctly or incorrectly, is the issue. This is something that has popped up from time to time, with garters identifying anything from substrate to silicone in the enclosure as food and ending up trying to eat them. If it wasn't dangerous, I'd feed one of my snakes Legos just to prove that point.

I've fed mine beef occasionally. Does that mean that they recognize cows as food? Of course not.

I noticed that you offered the worm from the forceps. Is that how you normally feed them? I also noticed that the snake was reluctant to grab it and that it only did it as you pushed the worm against the side of the mouth. In case you didn't know, that's a trick you'd use on a reluctant feeder. It's a way to provoke them into grabbing a food item.


Trust me, I noticed. I also noticed you yelling at 0:17 that "garter snakes eat insects".

here him say at least waxworms. plus stephan's youtube vid was not with an albino checkered it was with a wandering maybe other species will have different feeding habbits. + reactions

[ssssnakeluvr]

personally I wouldn't give them insects period....(sorry, missed most fo the last few days home sick...still trying to kick it!).... I force fed some insects to garters when I was young and didn't know any better...they passed out the back end looking just like they did when they went in....I gave them flies and they came out looking like flies..not snake poop if they had been able to digest them.....

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

yeppers.... bugs come out looking just like bugs! bet the waxworm's heads pass undigested.

[infernalis]

I wanna try the leggos thing

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

hahahaha, it's lego's for the garters this week.... I can see it now...

"Shannon"

"yes mom"

"why are the garters all neatly stacked on top of one another in the shape of a small house?"

[Faunaofthenorth]

personally I wouldn't give them insects period....(sorry, missed most fo the last few days home sick...still trying to kick it!).... I force fed some insects to garters when I was young and didn't know any better...they passed out the back end looking just like they did when they went in....I gave them flies and they came out looking like flies..not snake poop if they had been able to digest them.....

LOL that is funny, but true garters should not be fed insects if they dont have to...although i have observed a baby eastern garter trying to eat a small spider in the wild, it only got it half way into its mouth until it just sat there staring..then it regurgitated it...and also i found snake poop one time next to a den and i noticed that there was an insect in it, but like you said it looked just like it went it, just dried up a bit