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Hello forum members,

I thought I would post a pic of the garter that was rescued from my boss' cellar. He/she is very amusing and always hungry. It took him awhile to get the idea with the pieces of fish I finally got him to eat. He was trapped in the cellar since at least October as best we can tell. He could barely move when I got him and he was extremely thin. Now he is an eating machine eating everything from salmon to pinkies coming up and taking them off the tongs. I am fight the urge to keep it!
Here are some updated pics. The pics aren't that great and it does not capture how bad he looked but now he's healthy and very active.

Before

After

Miller
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1.1 Florida King
1.1 Eastern Kings
1.1 Black Milksnake
1.2 Kankakee Bull Snakes
2.2 Still Water Hypos
1.1 Possibly stillwater x Red Bull
2.2 N. Pinesnake
0.1 Tangerine Honduran
0.0.1 Black Ratsnake
1.0 Chow Chow (2003 Papi)
0.1 Cats (Shug)

Hmmm, that "he" might be a "she" that just developed her spring ovulation appetite and if you hang on to her for a couple more months and feed well you might have some little christmas presents underneath her some day. You did a nice job of providing for it's needs obviously, evidence by it has adapted to captivity and is eating from tongs, so at this point you might consider not wanting to "fight the urge to keep it" and "come over to the dark side", evil laugh
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Jeff Benfer
1.0 cinnamon pastel Python regius
1.1 pastel Python regius
1.1 mojave Python regius
0.3 normal Python regius
1.3 Terrapene carolina thriunguis
2.3 Terrapene carolina carolina
4.1 Kinosternon baurii
1.1 Malaclemys terrapin terrapin
2.2 double het albino and anerythristicThamnophis sirtalis parietalis
1.0 anerythristic Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis
2.3 Iowa snow Thamnophis radix
0.2 het Christmas albino Thamnophis radix
1.1 double het cherry erythristic, albino Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
1.1 melanistic Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
2.0 66% het snow Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
1.2 flame Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
1.1 triple heterozygous for amelanistic,carmel, and stripe Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 anerythristic motley Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 butter p.h. stripe Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 carmel stripe p.h. amel Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 amelanistic p.h. carmel,stripe Pantherophis guttatus

excellent! can't get enough radix.
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2 tham radix
1 Chicago Tham s. semifasciatus
2 elaphe vulpina
1 gray tiger salamander
4 Aphonopelma hentzi
1 G rosea
1 Haplo minax
1 Brachy angustum
1 Brachy sabulosum
1 Brachy vagans
1 Cent. hentzi scorp

If I cross over to anymore dark sides I will have to get three bedroom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>Hmmm, that "he" might be a "she" that just developed her spring ovulation appetite and if you hang on to her for a couple more months and feed well you might have some little christmas presents underneath her some day. You did a nice job of providing for it's needs obviously, evidence by it has adapted to captivity and is eating from tongs, so at this point you might consider not wanting to "fight the urge to keep it" and "come over to the dark side", evil laugh
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>>Jeff Benfer
>>1.0 cinnamon pastel Python regius
>>1.1 pastel Python regius
>>1.1 mojave Python regius
>>0.3 normal Python regius
>>1.3 Terrapene carolina thriunguis
>>2.3 Terrapene carolina carolina
>>4.1 Kinosternon baurii
>>1.1 Malaclemys terrapin terrapin
>>2.2 double het albino and anerythristicThamnophis sirtalis parietalis
>>1.0 anerythristic Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis
>>2.3 Iowa snow Thamnophis radix
>>0.2 het Christmas albino Thamnophis radix
>>1.1 double het cherry erythristic, albino Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
>>1.1 melanistic Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
>>2.0 66% het snow Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
>>1.2 flame Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
>>1.1 triple heterozygous for amelanistic,carmel, and stripe Pantherophis guttatus
>>0.1 anerythristic motley Pantherophis guttatus
>>0.1 butter p.h. stripe Pantherophis guttatus
>>0.1 carmel stripe p.h. amel Pantherophis guttatus
>>0.1 amelanistic p.h. carmel,stripe Pantherophis guttatus
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1.1 Florida King
1.1 Eastern Kings
1.1 Black Milksnake
1.2 Kankakee Bull Snakes
2.2 Still Water Hypos
1.1 Possibly stillwater x Red Bull
2.2 N. Pinesnake
0.1 Tangerine Honduran
0.0.1 Black Ratsnake
1.0 Chow Chow (2003 Papi)
0.1 Cats (Shug)