Male or female? Please advise

[kmreese]

Hi everyone I was reading a post from a while ago where you all helped someone determine the gender of his garter snakes. I'm thinking mine is female, but not sure. The only reason I'm thinking that is because of the way (her?) tail tapers more abruptly than a smoother taper...is that the way a female's tail tapers? I'm not even pretending to know, but I have read something like that from multiple sources. Anyway, I can't tell from the vent because I haven't had a good enough look at it or gotten a good enough picture yet. Don't mean to be disgusting or crude, but could it also be that since he's eaten so many worms in the last week that he hasn't had a healthy enough crap yet and he's backed up? and that's why there's not a smoother taper? He has crapped a few times since he's eaten, but I don't know enough about them to know how much is enough. I do think it's a good sign, though.

Can you all please help? I've included some pics, although I don't know if they're good enough for identification. If not then please let me know what to get a good close picture of. Thanks!!

The last 2 pics I just threw in because I liked them and thought I'd share them

[garterchick]

i'm not the expert here, but i'm sure that's a female.
congratulations

[Stefan-A]

Looks like a female.

[zooplan]

Tina, it seems your an expert yet
It´s a female for sure.
I´ll eat a broom, if not

[kmreese]

Thanks for the help you all!!

Udo, "I´ll eat a broom, if not " LOL! That's funny! I've never heard that before.

[GartersRock]

I'll just chime in with just one more female!!

[zooplan]

Thanks for the help you all!!

Udo, "I´ll eat a broom, if not " LOL! That's funny! I've never heard that before.

It´s a German adage, I can´t find something similar English, so I had to translate it word by word

[crzy_kevo]

female

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[Stefan-A]

It´s a German adage, I can´t find something similar English, so I had to translate it word by word

In English, Swedish and Finnish, you'd be eating your hat.

[kmreese]

Ah...ok Thanks Stefan, I've heard that one before, but a broom?? I thought it was funny...and Udo, I didn't mean anything by it. I just had never heard of eating a broom. Hahaha...it still makes me laugh. You've come up with a good one