Snake, Garter snake, Green, Rubber Reptile, Educational, Realistic Hand Painted, Figure, Lifelike Model, Figurine, Replica, Gift, 10" F2087B142

The garter snake has a huge range, from Massachusetts to Florida on the east coast, extending west to Minnesota and Canada north of the Great Lakes, south to Louisiana and east Texas on the Gulf of Mexico. It is a member of the same subfamily, the Natricinae, that includes North American water snakes and European grass snakes. Like many of their relatives, garter snakes can be grumpy when first caught, but although I have grabbed many garter snakes in my life, I have never actually been bitten. I have been on the receiving end of their defensive musk secretions, which they enthusiastically smear all over the place as they thrash around. (Their larger relative, the northern water snake is another matter. Those will bite.) Smelly defenses notwithstanding, garter snakes usually settle down and become quite tame in captivity. Generations of children, yours truly included, have kept them as pets. Garters eat frogs, toads, salamanders, earthworms, small fish-just about anything they can subdue and cram into their mouth, actually. Given their fondness for slimy, wet prey, I suspect that the occasional garters in the garden have strayed from the creek in search of a sunny basking spot.

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