My son wrote a very lengthy letter to Santa outlining all these good things he did to deserve a great Christmas present... and in the end he says, "... and because of these good things, it would be really cool if you would help my mom get me a hognose snake".
So, he opened his Christmas present at midnight and got all the things for a hognose habitat... and a hissy, bad tempered hognose (well, what did you expect being stuck in a critter keeper wrapped in Christmas paper and shoved to the back of a Christmas Tree that is playing Christmas songs for 6 long hours)... We almost got a heart-attack after we got to the last present and he picked up the "box" and was about to shake it and heard something like a rattlesnake sound and almost dropped the box!
So, my son named him Zeke (don't ask me why) and we built his house together and put him there and he immediately burrowed under the walnut shells never to be seen again. Sigh. We went to Christmas brunch at grandma's and when we got back, he was visible in the hide. We realized he is too big for this 10 gallon enclosure. My husband and I had a misunderstanding on which hognose to get - I thought we were getting the baby hoggie from Texas, but I guess it was too risky to ship since Texas has been super cold the past few days. So, hubby got the hoggy from the reptile store closeby instead. We're going to let him be for a few days before uprooting the whole thing to a bigger enclosure. And as such, I didn't get a picture of just the snake. We were too excited to build the house that we didn't think to take pictures of the snake first...
I'm super duper thankful for all the people here that helped me with hognose husbandry information. You guys ROCK!


In this 2nd picture, you can kinda see Zeke coiled up inside the hide.