I know this is off track from the op's question, but I never knew hognose snakes were popular until recently. When I was a kid, we weren't allowed to have dogs/cats, etc. So we would go down to the lake/woods and catch snakes. We'd bring them home, play with them for a while and then take them back. One snake we caught a lot were hognoses (in South Jersey).

We thought it was cool the way they would hiss, rattle their tails, roll over and play dead, and I think they would even secrete a musk...if I remember correctly. We never got bit, and we had no idea they were even mildly venomous.

Neat to see that they are becoming popular.