Field Herping – Garter Snakes

Catching a few Western Terrestrial Garter Snakes we found a last weekend. Another fun weekend herping in Colorado.

They do have enlarged teeth in the back of their mouth, but unlike many rear-fanged colubrid snakes, garter snakes do not have a groove running down the length of the teeth that would allow it to inject venom into its prey.

“Gryffindor” the Uromastyx Movie

This is my Mali Uromastyx that came to me very aggressive (believe me he can bite)! I’ve been able to handle him more and more each day to where now he’ll still hiss and posture, but has not bitten since that first week home. This is a short vid showing how “big and threatening” he thinks he is….we call this, “Gryff’s gonna open a can of whoopa**!”