Off topic Hoggie eats own tail

[Marcel Poots]

My female grabbed her own tail yesterday while feeding

For size reference, that is an adult mouse

Luckily she released her tail quickly. She got a chick as a treat too

 

[Missy]

oh my goodness gracious me!
thats quite alarming i'd say, but do you feed her adult mice often? or do you normally fedd her chicks?
the mouse looks way to small for her build.
hmmm, kinda interesting really, never had this with any of my corns.
keep an eye on her, or even better, when you feed her get her tail out the way of her mouth, she may have just caught it by accident.
good luck

 

[Marcel Poots]

or even better, when you feed her get her tail out the way of her mouth,

LOL, when food is in the air you don't want your hands anywhere near her.. She will grab anything and start to chew. Mice look too small but she is a big adult and adult don't need as much as you might think.. She gets the chicks only every now and then as a treat.

 

[cornsnake234]

I know absolutely nothing about hognose, but I've already seen one and I didn't expect they were getting that big!!! :eek1:
Do you have a pic of her in your hand!? is she bigger than a cornsnake?!?

 

[Marcel Poots]

Well, she is tad bit taller than her cage. The cage is 80 cm (about 32 inch).

She is as girthy as a Gaboon viper

 

[Amdek]

hahaha! my old garter snake attacked himself during a feeding once. He started to panic, and the more he strugled the harder he bit down on himself. Not exactly a genius ;-)

 

[watthe]

Hey i was jus lookn at sum hognoses the other day. I was wonderin if they were agressive at all and where do you get them at cuz ive never seen them at any petstores? Are they rare or sumthn?

 

[SnakeNutt]

Marcel, I have a male Cal king who has always been an extremely aggressive feeder. Last week, after I'd fed some of my female corns, I decided to move him into an empty box while I cleaned his box before feeding him. Unfortunately, I completely forgot to wash my hands first, and as soon as I lifted him up, the first thing he grabbed was my thumb. When he let go slightly, I got my hand away, which made him so frustrated that he started biting at his own body. Guess he must have smelled mouse there from where I'd held him. It was almost like watching a shark feeding frenzy on a wildlife documentary! Funny, but sorta scary, too, to realize that he was so out of control of himself. Made me very glad he wasn't a 15-foot python!
Liz

 

[Skye]

That is one big hognose!
Watthe - they are certainly not as common as corns, but its not hard to get hold of one. I've seen them at a number shows.
Skye

 

[leia]

I find hognoses very interesting. They are so cool, with their nosey. And playing dead, and playing rattler and cobra.

Have you seen yours try any of these things? I assume they are mostly an attack kinda thing (so maybe not).
I am thinking about getting one later in life. Very cool snakes

 

[lnwolf88]

That deserves a big OOOOPPPPPSSSSS!!!!

 

[Marcel Poots]

In Holland they are easy to come by. They are not rare. They are very interesting snakes. Indeed I have seen some dead playing and hooding up. They pretend to be aggressive by huffing and puffing whe you enter the cage. But I always grab them with bare hands and have never been bitten.

 

[limey]

i have always been told that hognoses are venomous (althought not very) and rear fanged , that being so has anyone ever managed to get biten by one and what is it like

 

[Elaphe_Mo]

I've been bitten by a hognose. At the time I didn't even know they were venomous. I never noticed any reaction at all to the bite. Anybody out there actually react to a hognose bite?

 

[kaotik]

My first time posting but I have been bitten by a hognose. The only thing that it did was bleed for almost an hour. Maybe something in their weak venom is a blood thinner?