I got a hoggie!!!!

so yesterday i went to my lps to pick up a rat for my ball. i was looking at their reptiles and saw a little baby western hognose. ive been wanting to get a snake to add to my collection of now 2 snakes. so last night i did all the research on these little guys i could . im not sure what the sex is, i want to learn how to pop snakes...

anywho. ill post up some pics as soon as he gets settled in.

anyone on here got hoggies? any cool stories about yours? im excited to see him hissing and flatten his neck!!!!

Have hoggies? I have 117 hoggie eggs in the incubator right now!! :) I have mexicans, westerns, easterns, and tricolors. Hope to add southerns and dorbingyi one day in the next few years.

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Originally Posted by FloridaHogs

Have hoggies? I have 117 hoggie eggs in the incubator right now!! :) I have mexicans, westerns, easterns, and tricolors. Hope to add southerns and dorbingyi one day in the next few years.

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117?!!! wow. thats alot of hoggers. tricolors are sweet. i have only found 1 or 2 pictures of them. got any? id love to see you swine..

Ask and you shall receive!

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My Mexican pair
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woooooowwww. what a bunch of beauties!!!!! i love the mexicans, remind me of rattlesnakes. love your collection. post up all your babies!! i may want to buy one from ya!!! thanks for the pics

congratulations:banana:
i have been looking to get a hoggie for a few months now...

I love those guys! They're not at all like those "normal colubrids". How many colubrids that are safe and widely available can show cobra-behavior? None of them except the Hognose. Good luck with the "pig-face"!

thanks. i havent seen him do his cobra impression yet. cant wait.

do y'all have pictures of your hoggie enclosure? i wanna see some nice ones and get a good idea on how to make mine look better.

I miss my hoggie!!! He was such a good snake but some parasite got him before we could save him. I was so sad. I wish I could get another one but there's no room at the inn at the moment. Do you ship your hognose snakes? Or just pick up? Those tricolors are gorgeous. I'd love to have one. ^_^.

i got my hoggie to eat today!! first time using FT as well. he didnt hesitate went straight for the kill. well he missed about 5 times. its neat how they dont constrict. do they do that when they are adults as well?

Nice Hoggies! Just a friendly reminder - sales questions should be addressed in PM's not in the open forum. :)

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Originally Posted by DSGB

i got my hoggie to eat today!! first time using FT as well. he didnt hesitate went straight for the kill. well he missed about 5 times. its neat how they dont constrict. do they do that when they are adults as well?

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Your Hogger's personality sounds just like mine. It seems that ours really want that food... They seem to miss alot because they have this "thought" in their mind that makes them expect the food to flee, so they go faster than they should and therefore, keep on missing (in the wild they eat very fast prey such as frogs).
Personally, I've never owned a boid so I've never witnessed constriction but like most (maybe all, I'm not sure) terrestrial colubrids (some Ratsnakes in my area constrict) they just go for the kill. Your Hogger will probably use the same method repeatedly even as it gets older, just like mine. Post some pics soon so I can determine the brightness of his colors :D.

pics in t-minus 5 minutes. just had a little photoshoot with my little guy/girl. i need a name for the little buger.

I've wanted a hoggie for years, and have debated not getting a western so I wouldn't have to deal with a state permit. I like the westerns the best though.

I really think they're neat snakes.