eastern garter snake eating full grown mouse

[snakemast66]

mouse is too large but he seemed to manage this round!

[kenster515]

never go ass to mouth!

[mosaicglass]

Nice close up video! Love it. I have a vid of my snakes eating too,.

[eadicate]

lol I live in oregon and I have hundreds of those snakes around my yard

[battletoads22]

No wonder this video is 7 mins long! Damn snake ate the damn mouse backwards!

[poopsmidgen]

LOL he ate it backwards!!!!

[andtho2]

i have a 4.5 foot snake same as yours and it wont eat a mouse is that a problem i need to know

[StrangeWorld18]

You need to try cat food and fish. You can try feeding it frozen/thawed smelts that you can get at any grocery store. You can also buy either live, or frozen thawed minnows online. Do not feed goldfish however because when a goldfish is being digested in a snakes body it depletes vitamins for some reason. Also, if you switch to just fish or just cat food, you'll have to supplement with a snake vitamin powder that you can buy online or in pet stores.

[catering2cowards]

absolutely not, garter snakes do eat rodents occasionally in the wild, but for the most part they do not, they mostly eat water-based prey items such as frogs, fish, and earthworms, but also eat toads, and well rodents and sometimes birds, but rarely, and fish do NOT ALWAYS deplete vitamins, for they eat them quite often in the wild, it depends on what fish and from where you get them, in the wild, they eat more than one different type of prey, so where one is laking in vitamins the other has

[carcarx42]

@catering2cowards Would you be able to feed a live one to a garter snake?

[sethgoesboom09]

is yours wild caught

[idunnosia]

snakes. are BADASS!!! awesome.

[jamcrae100]

how old is ur snake

[UndeadSoldier4Life]

i fed my snake a tadpole and it ate that thing like a candy bar with a fatt kid. Should i feed it about 2-3 times a week

[catering2cowards]

yea that should be ok just dont over feed it, and make sure you keep the enclosure clean as well as the water, you should change the water daily or every other day at least

[UndeadSoldier4Life]

Okay and should the bowl be big enough for the 3 foot long snake to get into?

Im kinda thinking about letting it go because i don't know how to care for it and i dont want it to die ):

[catering2cowards]

well it's a 3 foot snake so, it should have no problem, all snakes are born with the ability to swim so yea that should be ok, that water bowl in the video was big enough for a 4-5 foot snake to soak in so yea and it's also important for shedding too

[UndeadSoldier4Life]

ok good and i let my garter snake go ):

untill i learn more about them im not gonna have one. BUt im thinking about getting a milk snake (:

[catering2cowards]

well sort of, she would eat anything, and i mean anything, one time the local pet store had some old stillborn baby rabbits which are friggen huge, about twice that, and he gave them to me for free, and i thought what the hell, so i threw it in there and WHAM!! she gobbled it up i was like what the, and my neighbor saw it eating a baby bird once before i caught it

[UndeadSoldier4Life]

So they do have fangs...?

[catering2cowards]

not the traditional style of fangs as in pit vipers like that of the rattlesnake or rear-fanged like that of the boomslang, they have elongated maxillary teeth that are located posteriorly on the head which have what is called a duvernoy's gland which is a gland that produces toxic saliva but they dont have an effective means of delivering this so unless they chew and work those back teeth in you then you wont have to worry

[UndeadSoldier4Life]

Oh my gosh so they are toxic?

wow scary mine just snapped at me to.

do you think that means hes hungry?

[catering2cowards]

um yes but not in a sense that would harm you, like i said it'd have to depend on you allergies, ive been bitten sooooooo many time at least a thousand and the only thing ive ever gotten from them was a little bit itchy and bleeding, so dont worry your fine they are still completely harmless, and um no it wouldnt be hungry it snapped at you because it thought you were gonna eat it, it was a defensive display, dont worry the more you handle it the more comfortable itll get with you

[UndeadSoldier4Life]

So i should try and pick it up more?

Im kinda scared now ):

cause its not small its almost like 3 feet long.

And its my first snake.

[catering2cowards]

hey dont be scared, i just had my texas garter snake sink his back teeth into the webbing between my pointer and middle finger and he got in there deep, he was chewing for about a minute then he finally let go, it just bled a little, and itched a bit until i washed it with hot water and put hydrogen peroxide on it its fine nothing happened, so dont worry

[catering2cowards]

ahhh yea thats what it was called, im srry there buddy if i got my terms mixed uo but there was no need for you to fly off the handle i accept that i was wrong this time and you are right, anyway that is the only thing ive messed up on so you cant tell everyone not to listen to my advice because 90% of the time its correct, d dont need a hater so im srry if i got the terms mixed up man

[UndeadSoldier4Life]

LOL you accidently replied to me xD

[rodriguez491]

thats insane my garter snakes neevr took mice not even pinkys

[Shortstickman]

thats a huge snake for a garter 5 feet long no wonder she can eat that whole mouse cool looking snake too bad you had to let her go

[braxton94]

i love how it ate it ass end first

[MovieMkr101]

nasty!!!!!! how'd u get it to eat a mouse mine won't even sniff anything that doesn't move ya thats great its reallly big too!!!!

[catering2cowards]

well, lets just say that it took several years of experience to get it just right, and im not sure but that snake was a special one, all i had to do really was wash the mouse and then smear frog, earthworm, and fish scent all over it till it was soaked then i had to slowly wiggly it around on the ground of the cage until it just gorged it, eventually it would only eat rodents, it once ate a couple of still born baby rabbits and those are huge

[rayman2121]

Thats so sick. i caught one yesterday lol. FKING AWSOME! :)

[catering2cowards]

I miss this snake, it was almost 5 feet in length, it was by far the longest snake that i have ever caughten but for the greater good i let her go, maybe i'll catch her again this summer, ive caughten some pretty huge garter snakes up here in northern minnesota

[pitandmetta]

yeah i miss mine but i got another one check my garter snake vid out plz