Quote Originally Posted by anendeloflorien View Post
Very cool! Thanks for the info. The only reason I asked about the correlation between what they eat in the wild and what they eat in captivity was because that seems to be peoples popular myth about why hognoses are non-venomous in captivity. Thanks for clearing that up!

So are these fairly new findings, or has this information been around for a while? I'd just hate to see the wrong people people in government get ahold of information like that. All they need to see is the words "venom" or "fangs" and they immediately start peeing their pants and calling people who keep those "dangerous" animals crazies while they call for people to register their animals.

I know that here in NH it is illegal to keep any type of venomous animal unless it is for educational purposes so if they decide to classify hoggies as "venomous" I'd have to either give them up (which I could never do) or risk fines and other things.
The information has been out there for awhile - things just tend to get confused on the Forums.

Technically, all colubrids, with the exception of elaphe, lampropeltis and pituophis are venomous. Heterodon are opistoglyphs and while this is still a primitive delivery system, it is more advanced than those seen, for example, in garter snakes.