>Just as a side matter, what do you think snakes eat besides gardeners? > >shp **A gardening friend tells this story. Her young neighbor came by one day to play with the little garter snakes in Margo's garden. The girl was holding and playing with the snake, roughly, so my friend asked her to put down the snake. The girl refused, and squeezed harder, and the snake started upchucking. My friend said she had never seen the amount of snails and slugs that the poor snake upchucked. The snake had consumed a HUGE amount of the slimy beasts. Good in the garden, snakes. Bad in the garden, little girls who handle snakes roughly. -- susan, who is..... owned by Jasper & Schubert the Standard Poodles, Gracie the Rhodesian, Pup-Quiz the Basenji and their Basenji brother, Jones.... on the North Coast of CA, USA susanann@sbcglobal.net, copyright 2004