garter snakes and leghold traps??

	Hello,

	I just have a few minutes out of my work schedule to respond to
	Gunnar and a comment about trapping muskrats.....

	Gunnar -  garter snakes 'come' in different colors throughout N.
	America...usually stripes and they are very small snakes....I
	find mine in various places, sometimes even in my basement of
	my house (where they find an opening and crawl thru usually in
	July here - have to fix those cracks!)  I have never personally
	seen a copper-colored one but they may exist elsewhere.  I very
	often see patterns on the snakes here or they crawl around in what
	I would call 'Army camouflage' - greenish-brown. I am not an expert
	on reptiles so maybe someone else has something to add.  They do
	eat slug & other things.

	Muskrats and eating iris:  Don't know what is eating the lady's
	iris and hopefully a solution will be found but I think they are
	other traps that work more efficiently and humanely on wild animals
	than leghold traps.  This is not the list to discuss ther various
	kinds of traps but suffice to say that children and family pets
	are get tangled up in leghold trap.

	Ellen
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