Posted: 8/29/2012 2:15:33 PM EDT
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Eastern hognose? This, definitely. They put on quite a show of hissing anf flattening their bodies, but are completely harmless. If the tough act doesn't work, they progress to playing dead, complete with flipping over belly up and hanging their tongue out of their mouth  . Cool snakes and quite an amusing show. Their main food source is toads, they're one of the few animals that can eat them and not get sick.
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Wish my son's hognose would get bigger so I can start getting feeders instead of frozen pinkies. Caught him a couple years ago in the hallway of our Missile Alert Facility. He's grown about an inch and a half since then.
Should have keep some of the big bull snakes I would relocate off site because the cops were little sissys. |
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Quoted: Live in the mt pleasant areaVery cool snake, haven't seen a Hognose in years. They eat toads mostly, will play dead, act like a cobra sometimes, but very seldom bite, you must live in middle to northern MI, up past Muskegen around Mears and Hart is where I used to catch them as a kid. |
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Very cool snake, haven't seen a Hognose in years. They eat toads mostly, will play dead, act like a cobra sometimes, but very seldom bite, you must live in middle to northern MI, up past Muskegen around Mears and Hart is where I used to catch them as a kid. I have never seen one here didn't even know that they lived here. They must not live near Neebish Island  Neat
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Very cool snake, haven't seen a Hognose in years. They eat toads mostly, will play dead, act like a cobra sometimes, but very seldom bite, you must live in middle to northern MI, up past Muskegen around Mears and Hart is where I used to catch them as a kid. I have never seen one here didn't even know that they lived here. They must not live near Neebish Island NeatI've probably only found 8-10 in my lifetime and very single one was when I was up at Silver lake. I about crapped myself the first time [I was probably about 8] I caught one. I had absolutely no idea what it was but I was going to catch it anyways. I was one of those kids that must have lived a charmed life because I used to catch any and everything that crawled or slithered as a kid. I'm pretty sure I gave more then a few grey hairs to Mom and Dad growing up. At least I was off to camp when he opened up my snake box while living in Florida because when the water moccasin went for him, he had a had a few days to cool off before I got picked up. When he asked me if I knew what it was and if I knew it was poisonous [ya ya, venomous], I said "sure, that's why I made sure it didn't bite me." I think Dad finally could laugh about that when he hit about 70............. 
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Looking rather flat to me, is it still alive? Yup. Found the cat playing with him,so put in a sack and tossed his ass in the woods. Lil bastard was kind of aggressive It's all an act, even the stikes are mock. You can just pick them up. Keep in mind, they are rear fanged, mildly venomous. Usually that just means you'll bleed more from them than from a cornsnake(which is truly nonvenomous) but allergies are a bitch. I wouldn't say the risk is a big one but it is there. |
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Eastern Hognosed snake, Heterodon platyrhinos. Since toads inflate themselves as a defense, these snakes have specialized teeth at the rear of their jaws which pop the toad, thereby making it easier to swallow. See my previous post. Those "specialized teeth" are actually fangs. Venom is mild, but it is indeed venom. |
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Looking rather flat to me, is it still alive? Yup. Found the cat playing with him,so put in a sack and tossed his ass in the woods. Lil bastard was kind of aggressive It's all an act, even the stikes are mock. You can just pick them up. Keep in mind, they are rear fanged, mildly venomous. Usually that just means you'll bleed more from them than from a cornsnake(which is truly nonvenomous) but allergies are a bitch. I wouldn't say the risk is a big one but it is there. There is a risk, but almost entirely from pet hognose snakes that are tricked into biting curious people by removing the food source at the last second and replacing it with a finger and letting the snake chew, in one case that may be BS, one caused a reaction,maybe. Hognosed snakes are harmless. |
