Problems With Regurgitation?

[anatess]

I have a 2' male western and he eats a small ASF, hair and all, without any problems. So, I'm not convinced about the hair being the cause for a regurge...

[Hyper Joe]

My Hogger is 1' long and he's only big enough for the largest pinkies, and his girth is average (I've checked). Maybe he could take a fuzzy-can someone post a photo for size comparision?

Here you go.

Length - fuzzy and snake


Girth - fuzzy and snake


Eaten - Notice she is not overly stretched out if at all. She can actually take on a mouse hopper.

[vgibbens]

The girl we ended up getting is about 16" now and she takes a fuzzy not problem and acts like she's hungry all the time. I was just thinking of this thread this morning as I was feeding her. Our girl was in shed all this last week and wasn't too interested in food lately. She shed yesterday afternoon so I figured I'd feed her this morning (normal feeding day anway) and she was going crazy. Normally, she gets close to the mouse and just kind of bites quickly and then starts swallowing. This morning, she was striking at the tongs and hissing, it was funny. That fuzzy didn't last too long.

[vgibbens]

Oh, and I did find out why those two at the LPS were regurging. They were being fed normally every 5 days. BUT, people would come in and say "ah cool you got hognoses in here, can you feed them so we can see them eat?" So, they would feed them; this happened multiple times a week. So they were being overfed. Sucks though, like i said before the store in general has a good reputation. We bought our BP and our corn snakes from them and they seem to take really good care of their stock.

[Hardwikk]

Here you go.

Length - fuzzy and snake


Girth - fuzzy and snake


Eaten - Notice she is not overly stretched out if at all. She can actually take on a mouse hopper.

I think he can take that.

[Hyper Joe]

I think he can take that.

Check this out. I offered a decent sized hopper mouse to the same 12 incher and she took it no problem.



And she ate it backwards!!!

These hogs are pigs..

[Dragnbaron]

Check this out. I offered a decent sized hopper mouse to the same 12 incher and she took it no problem.



And she ate it backwards!!!

These hogs are pigs..

Hmmmm, she seems to like it tail end first. You have a crazy snake there! Mine likes to take it sideways and crush it.

p.s. i just reread that and can SO see it going in 'completely out of context'

[FastDad]

Hmmmm, she seems to like it tail end first. You have a crazy snake there! Mine likes to take it sideways and crush it.

p.s. i just reread that and can SO see it going in 'completely out of context'

ours to! it looks so crazy! I try to make some pics the next feeding.

[Dragnbaron]

ours to! it looks so crazy! I try to make some pics the next feeding.

Please do! Danke!

[Hyper Joe]

With my short experiences with hognoses I notice mine will eat it anyway they want. Sideways, backwards front.. They just take it into their mouth and how ever it is positioned it goes down. I have yet to see them look for the head first then swallow. Since they naturally eat toads, and toads are fat, that is the way hognoses do it I guess.