I was hiking last weekend with my friend, Brian, and we saw a garter snake slithering along beside the trail. I tried to catch it, but it got underneath a log. Then a few minutes later, we saw another. This one went underneath a stump. It came out the other side, but it wasn't moving as fast, so I assume he thought I couldn't see him. I waited for his tail to come out from under the stump, and I grabbed him, Crocodile Hunter style, and held him up in the air. Steve Irwin always said that they can't climb up their own tails, but they always seem to come pretty close to doing it. I shake them a little to straighten them out again. This one was doing a lot of squirming. Brian took a picture, and I set him down on the ground. He sat there for a few seconds. It seemed as if he realized I didn't want to hurt him. Then again, he might've been stunned... I wonder if I'd dropped him a little too hard on the ground... He didn't seem as if he was in any hurry to leave after that...