Well Spikey isn’t really a “pet” but he lives in our backyard right next to our house and he has gotten so tame that the kids can pet him and people have picked him up. He really doesn’t seem to mind us much and if he did I think he’d stop showing up in the same spots every day. We know its always Spikey and not another Garter snake because he had injured his tail long ago and its a little stubby. This summer Spikey got himself a girlfriend (or maybe Spikey is the girl and found a boyfriend?) either way we see this other snake a lot now too and Ben named her Dewka. I hope we get babies soon!

On that note I had just told my father that Garter snakes are live bearing snakes and I wanted to make sure I was right so I looked it up. I found out they are ovoviviparous (a new word for me).

Ovoviviparous Reproduces by eggs which remain in the mother’s body until they are ready to hatch. When the young emerge, they are born live, with only a membrane to break out of. Click here for another related new word.

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