You did what!

[jitami]

She looked at me like "where have you been, take me inside. This sucks!"

Too cute! I think the weirdest(or at least I thought so at the time) thing I've done was treating Sly for mites. He was a yearling, maybe 12-14 inches, and I didn't want to use poison on him. Mind you I had never had a snake before, hubby never liked snakes, and the kids were too young to handle this.... I'm convinced it's how Sly became "my" snake instead of theirs. So I didn't want to use poison on a young one and decided to do the olive oil thing. Every other day for weeks Sly got a nice long olive oil massage and bath Now I'm raising stupid fish... not because my snakes won't eat anything else... just cause I think it's nice to let them fish for their food every once in a while

[guidofatherof5]

Here's a look at the cream I was taking about. Great investment for $4. Better yet ask your Vet for a small amount. Probably give you some for free.

[guidofatherof5]

Tami, I'm sure they appreciate it. Love to watch them go fishing! It's a thing of beauty

[jitami]

Well, we can't get feeder guppies here commercially and it'll be some time before these few have their babies and the babies get big enough to eat, but eventually they'll have healthy fishies to hunt for in their bowls

[guidofatherof5]

Awesome! Sid

[infernalis]

Sid my hero

[jitami]

Wow Sid!!!! Very nice save!!!

[reptile3]

amazing Sid, that is great!! Shannon, that was a precious moment!!

* mine doesn't pertain to snakes, but 2 yrs ago, a stray cat I had been feeding, I realized she was pregnant. One night around 11:30pm (it had to be 80 degrees out), started to have her babies on my back porch. Seeing those little beauties was soo sweet. Me, My son & daughter watched as the cat had her babies. 5 black- females.

I had to keep her & the babies for 2 weeks in the basement, I liter trained the momma cat. We got to see the eyes open on 2 of the babies. It was sooo sweet. I gave the mom & babies to a rescue place, that would either keep them or give them a nice loving home. It took alot of calling, emailing & searching. *

[GartersRock]

Well I have gone out to catch a hundred minnows waist deep in the ridiculously cold (for us Texans ) San Marcos river while it was 30 degrees out for 2 hours....

Hand removed a hundred or so long skinny worm things from under the skin of one of my male checkereds Keiran. ICK!!! I was gagging the whole time.

Hand treated for mites w/non toxic spray. I had dead mites all over me because this mean as heck 6 ft TX rat snake wouldn't hold still. And I always felt like I had them on me for two days after that. LOL I didn't.

I have been musked countless times. But the worst are the Diamondback water snakes. POOLS of it!!! It's crazy!! And they SLING it. All over. Splatters everywhere. Even on my face on a few occasions. Thank God it isn't as long lastingly concentrated as the TX rat snakes.... AHH

Revived newborn babies still in their sacks.

We have all touched untold amounts of gross things I am sure we never thought we would touch. LOL!

And I won't go into anymore specifics. Though there are plenty. To tired to think right now. And I have to go feed all the babies in a few minutes. lol

[Topaz]

My story isn't of a garter, but of a baby fox snake.

He was only a few weeks old, around 12 inches long and sweet for a little baby. One day I was taking out all of his "furniture" - 2 hides, a fake plant, driftwood, and a cute little Snoopy bobble head....and the snake wasn't in there. After losing my garter in the house a couple times I searched in all the "normal" places. Those places were all empty. I pulled out the couch, flipped it over, nothing. Pulled out the water dragon enclosure, nothing! Pulled every single peice of furniture and appliance I could in the entire apartment, and found NOTHING. I let all the decor' sit out of the enclosure while panicking. I continued to search for several hours until the fiance' came home to help me look. An hour after he got home, I found the snake...INSIDE of the Snoopy bobble head (after I had checked it numerous times, I someone over looked the baby!) It took about 45 minutes of running water into the bobble head and pouring it out to "flush out" the snake to make sure he was alright (I had moved the head around while searching, and feared I caused injury.) The snake came out, and was unharmed. We named him Snoopy after that.

Unfortunately, Snoopy died about a month after this incident. He never would eat, and as a last resort, we tried force feeding him...in which he died in my hands the next day. We have no idea what killed him...and after more research we found it could not have been starvation. There was something else wrong with poor Snoopy.