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Old 07-13-16, 03:53 PM   #1
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Re: Keeping garter snakes together?

Albert I am wondering where you got this information? Have you ever cohabed garters yourself? We both know people that cohabitate whom have much more experience than our selves. I am not sure if there are garters where you live, but here they can be found in large groups through out the year. I guess my question is why you think garters can not be cohabitated? Honestly curious, so let's keep this civil.
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Old 07-13-16, 04:48 PM   #2
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Albert I am wondering where you got this information? Have you ever cohabed garters yourself? We both know people that cohabitate whom have much more experience than our selves. I am not sure if there are garters where you live, but here they can be found in large groups through out the year. I guess my question is why you think garters can not be cohabitated? Honestly curious, so let's keep this civil.
I once again agree with this. The few I know who work with them up here in Canada prefer to cohab and actually consider them to be rather social in comparison to most other reptiles.
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Albert I am wondering where you got this information? Have you ever cohabed garters yourself? We both know people that cohabitate whom have much more experience than our selves. I am not sure if there are garters where you live, but here they can be found in large groups through out the year. I guess my question is why you think garters can not be cohabitated? Honestly curious, so let's keep this civil.
Well, actually most of my information on garter snakes comes from "The Garter Snakes ecology and evolution" by Rossman, Ford, and Seigel. As well, my 6 years experience in breeding garter snakes and kingsnakes. No, I only cohab during brumation and breeding. Garter snakes can be found in large groups during times of brumation and breeding. If you are seeing them in areas where you live it's probably due to their foraging behaviors and the abundance of adequate prey items. Garter snakes are distributed throughout the continental U.S. Including Canada and Mexico! So yes, there are native garter snakes here in New York. Oh, they can be cohabbed but that is not the safest or recommended way to house them. If that's what you want to do then you have my best wishes. Garters are known to be a intelligent species but social not so much. They stress easily, have very high metabolisms and need their own space. What makes you feel I would be uncivil? Really?
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