FAT SEXY said:
How much work is it to care for hognose? Pretty easy to keep them happy/healthy?
Easterns - no. Extremely difficult to care for. I had changed mine to eating mice (they eat amphibians in the wild), but he quit eating this winter (which isn't uncommon), and wouldn't eat the usual mouse scented with a frozen toad. So, I always keep some frozen toads/frogs in the deep freeze. I'm raising some tadpoles I found until they turn into frogs (at which point I'll freeze them and use them to scent frozen mice).
Western hognoses are probably medium. They can be a bit finicky on eating mice (usually they're not, as most you get as a pet are captive-bred), but they are lizard eaters in the wild mainly. They'll also eat bird eggs, amphibians, and occasionally mice (in the wild). They also have a saliva that can induce swelling if they were to bite you (they have teeth in the middle of their mouths; mine is an aggressive feeder, mainly cause I need to handle him more - I've been bitten before which was my mistake, and my thumb swelled up a little). They aren't like corn snakes - who if I don't work with them for months and only feed them regularly, I can still pick them up and they quickly chill out.
I know a lot about a little, and a little about a lot.
