so how would I go about figuring out how old my garter is? Or is there even a way that I can do this.... even in a "guesstimate" sort of way...
I found her this fall outside so chances are she has never been a captive snake before. I do suppose this isnt really important considering I will be releasing her in the spring BUT I would however be interested in finding out.
She came to me (or should I say I found her) with a lot of different questionable marks and scars. Or at least this is what I thought they were. Not knowing too too much about snake injuries and how they heal I couldnt be positive but she had a lot of black/greyish marks here and there that seemed to be past injuries that has healed a while back. It made me wonder how long she'd have to be out there on here own to acquire so many scars. I guess its possible she just had bad luck though.
Since I had her she's been doing great even with the terribly unfortunate encounter she had with my cat, (that she seems to be healing amazingly from) that I am still feeling so guilty about.
Poor little snake didnt ASK to be caught and here I go putting her in danger with a predator she has no defense against (mind you of course this was a complete ACCIDENT)
To be honest I am not even POSITIVE that she is even a female but I sexed her myself reading the differences between male and female. maybe soon I will post a picture up of her cloaca area to see what you guys think. I could have been calling snakems a SHE all this time when she is really a HE lol
At first I referred to her as a "he" because for whatever reason I just automatically I guess associate snakes with being male. Though I know thats not the case lol but i checked her out and was fairly certain "he" was a she. But i could definitely be wrong.

well.... as with all of my other posts so far this one is no different in the respect that it is getting off course and just becoming a mess of me talking about things with no real connection, or order lol so .... Im going to close with my original question....

"is there a way to tell your snakes age?"

thanks for reading