|
|  |
| Notices |
Welcome to the sSnakeSs community. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact us.
|
06-17-04, 08:14 AM
|
#1
|
|
Member
Join Date: Feb-2002
Location: Burnt River, Ontario
Age: 50
Posts: 225
|
Finally...A HOGNOSE!!!!
Since moving to our property in the north Kawartha Lakes region a year ago I have been waiting for the day we find a hognose....I am failrly new to Ontario and had yet to see one in the wild....and we look alot. Yesterday it happend!! Jason H came up to visit, and go snake catching with my 5 year old, Brodie. (Jason is Brodies hero...lol) Well, I have a few big rock piles in my field .... always a good place to find about a dozen garters and milksnakes! We are NOT short of those! Anyways Brodie and Jason were going through one of them and found two big milksnakes, a big garter and a HUGE HOGNOSE under the same rock!!!!! If anyone was watching or hereing us, they would have though we struck gold!! LMAO!! Brodie and I were squeeling with joy and Jason, had his hands FULL of snakes!! I think he was in shock he was so happy! He said it was the biggest hognoes he had ever seen. What a find!! and in my own backyard! WHoohoo....lol.
I will let Jason step in here and tell you more about our snake catching day.... I am sure he want to brag alittle too...lol  :P
ANYWAYS....Here it is.....
I have posted more pictures of it in the Venomous gallery.
ttfn...
__________________
Teresa Wittig
TARZETS
www.tarzet.net
Quality Designer Leopard Geckos, Corn Snakes and more!
|
|
|
|
06-17-04, 09:02 AM
|
#2
|
|
Member
Join Date: Mar-2002
Location: in the mountains
Age: 54
Posts: 1,186
Country: 
|
That is one big hognose Teresa. Wowsers......Congrats to you all on your find.
|
|
|
|
|
06-17-04, 09:41 AM
|
#3
|
|
Member
Join Date: Mar-2002
Location: The Forest City
Age: 56
Posts: 803
|
Awesome find!!!
__________________
"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind."
|
|
|
|
|
06-17-04, 01:12 PM
|
#4
|
|
Member
Join Date: Feb-2002
Location: southern ontario
Posts: 750
|
it was a great day for herping! the pic doesnt do the size of this monster justice cause he is HUGE!!! and the smell he lets off is just as big lol,I was a little disapointed that he wouldnt play dead for us,though he mimics a cobra like a champ. It was a great day and im looking forward to Brodie and I finding more again soon.
|
|
|
|
|
06-17-04, 02:27 PM
|
#5
|
|
Member
Join Date: Apr-2003
Posts: 995
Country: 
|
Awesome.. Congrats on the find guys. I'd love to see a wild eastern hognose.
|
|
|
|
|
06-17-04, 04:13 PM
|
#6
|
|
Member
Join Date: Mar-2003
Location: Ontario Canada
Age: 65
Posts: 1,485
|
Good stuff Teresa!! I found only a couple in all my childhood years just down the road from you.
They are quite rare in Lutterworth and Victoria townships but they are present.
Unfortunately sometimes they are mistaken for rattle snakes and killed by ignorant cottagers, but I guess that applies to most snakes. Of couse Massasaugas are not known in our area up there.
__________________
Uncle Roy
-----------------------------------------
Herpetology - more than a hobby
It's a Lifestyle
celebrating 26 years of herp breeding
|
|
|
|
|
06-17-04, 08:38 PM
|
#7
|
|
Member
Join Date: Nov-2002
Location: Peterborough, Ontario
Posts: 182
|
I'm comin for a visit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL congratulations
__________________
Stewart Stick
|
|
|
|
|
06-17-04, 08:58 PM
|
#8
|
|
Member
Join Date: Jun-2003
Location: Pulaski, Virginia
Age: 37
Posts: 341
|
i want it!!!!!ummmmm...yeah...
__________________
1.0 albino cali. king snake(Diego)1.0 0.0.1 Blue-Tongued Skink (Oz)1.0 western hoggie (Tiki)0.0.1 amel creamsicle corn (Leo)0.0.1
ssssoon to come...albino burmese python (2 days and counting)
|
|
|
|
|
06-17-04, 09:21 PM
|
#9
|
|
Member
Join Date: Feb-2002
Location: Burnt River, Ontario
Age: 50
Posts: 225
|
Thanks everyone....but I wouldnt have been able to lift that rock myself...lol...it was way to big! Thanks to Jason
Hey Stewart...you are welcome to come on by and take some pictures of it before I let it go 
Call me...
__________________
Teresa Wittig
TARZETS
www.tarzet.net
Quality Designer Leopard Geckos, Corn Snakes and more!
|
|
|
|
|
06-17-04, 09:50 PM
|
#10
|
|
Member
Join Date: Mar-2003
Location: Ontario Canada
Age: 65
Posts: 1,485
|
don't keep it long.
Stew, you know what it's all about. Take your pics and let it go
__________________
Uncle Roy
-----------------------------------------
Herpetology - more than a hobby
It's a Lifestyle
celebrating 26 years of herp breeding
|
|
|
|
|
06-17-04, 11:02 PM
|
#11
|
|
Member
Join Date: Nov-2002
Location: Peterborough, Ontario
Posts: 182
|
I'm extremely busy right now, and can't make it up 
besides I want the thrill of the hunt and the glory of the find. Talk to you soon.
__________________
Stewart Stick
Last edited by Swampwalker; 06-17-04 at 11:08 PM..
|
|
|
|
|
06-18-04, 07:14 AM
|
#12
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Apr-2003
Location: Ontario
Age: 50
Posts: 335
|
Good job on the find. they are cool snakes, I Have found four in the past few years and none of them played dead. It makes me wonder how much you have to theaten them before they perform, they do however hiss loud and hood up.
|
|
|
|
|
06-18-04, 07:46 AM
|
#13
|
|
Member
Join Date: Feb-2002
Location: southern ontario
Posts: 750
|
|
|
|
|
|
06-18-04, 08:05 AM
|
#14
|
|
Member
Join Date: Feb-2002
Location: Burnt River, Ontario
Age: 50
Posts: 225
|
I will let it go very soon Roy....It is shedding right now and I want to take some pictures of it after it is finnished. I am alittle worried about letting it go in the same rock pile tho...my 6 year old is always digging around in there and I am afraid he will get bit. He gets bit by milksnakes and garters all the time....I would hate for him to be bit by this guy! What should I do?
__________________
Teresa Wittig
TARZETS
www.tarzet.net
Quality Designer Leopard Geckos, Corn Snakes and more!
|
|
|
|
|
06-18-04, 08:20 AM
|
#15
|
|
Member
Join Date: Feb-2002
Location: southern ontario
Posts: 750
|
I think your ok to put it back Teresa Brodie is still a bit scared of that snake aand he would never be able to lift that rock,so to let it go there i dont think will be a problem,plus Brodie doesnt want to handle the hoggie at all (it stinks he says lol).
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 06:15 AM.
Powered by vBulletin®
©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright © 2002-2023, Hobby Solutions.
|
 |
Linear Mode
