I caught this Eastern in my pasture last week. I thought the hognose crowd here would like to see.
I let it go as I didn't have any extra room to try and keep it. It was way awesome looking in person, just a little bit greener than in the pics. It was the first hognose I've actually held in my hands, and I was surprised at how soft it was... kind of velvety almost, totally unlike my BPs. Are Westerns and the other varieties anything like that?
Here's a baby that I found a few months ago:
Anybody here keep Easterns? I've read that they're pretty tough to switch over to rodents, but some seem to have had success with them.
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