Maybe a dumb question, but is it bad to catch wild hognoses? Before snakes, I had never been interested in animals you could just find outside if you lift up enough rocks and sticks, so the idea of a wild caught pet is kind of foreign and something I have zero knowledge of. The only animal I ever kept as a kid was an Arizona horned toad that someone found, but I kept it in a tub on the patio so... Not exactly a well-researched area for me.

I was wondering about hognoses specifically because I hear you can find them in Lubbock, where I live. And that in fact Lubbock is where the first albino western was caught, but I can't find the source on that so I'm not sure. Not that I would hope to find a morph in the wild anyway, lol.

Again sorry if this is a ridiculous question, I still don't know a whole lot about snakes but would like to learn.