My husband and I are talking about getting a larger enclosure for our bp in a few months and getting a smaller snake to keep in Millie's old house. We're going back and forth between a sand boa and a hognose. The only thing making us hesitate on the hoggie is the possibility of our son getting a dose of (very mild) venom. I recently read that captive bred hoggies DON'T have venom, because they don't manufacture it themselves, but rather somehow manage to recycle the poison that the toads they eat in the wild excrete. Since they eat mice in captivity, there's supposedly no venom.

I'm hoping someone here who HAS been bitten by a cb hoggie can confirm this. Can anyone who has been bitten let me know if there was any swelling or anything else that would make it any different from being bit by a bp? Other than size, of course!