Well since we got paid today and we just happened to have an extra water bowl, rubbermaid, and heat pad laying around..........
we got a western hognose snake from a very good pet shop. It's one of those rare ones.
They breed their own, and are (next year) attempting to get into albino westerns!
I have never seen such aggressive little snakes! He brought them out in something like deli cups (but bigger) and there was one that was striking so hard that it nearly knocked it's self off the counter!
Then when the guy was trying to show me the diffreneces in tail length (for sexing) and the little western was following his hand around with it's little mouth open (probably wasn't big enough to fit around his finger!)
But a tag is a tag! lol.
Everyone always talks about their cute up turned noses. When I picked one up I seen their belly! How come no one ever talks about their shiny black white/yellow belly? Or the orange (varries in shades) little block of color by their vent?!
Well we got one that is about 8 inches long, (not like I can get it to hold still lol) and was hatched in july. So it's about 6 months old this month.......does that sound about right?
Anyways if you haven't read in Birchaddict's post yet, He already gave us a scare!
We got him home and set him up, a good 3 inches of aspen shavings, and a water bowl. We left to go pick up a digi thermometer.
When we got back and I went to put the probe over the UTH I couldn't find him! OMG. I sifted through it and got more and more frantic. I FINALLY picked up a "clump" of aspen shavings that didn't want to fall apart......little b*****d almost gave us a heart attack.
The rubbermaid is now (as it was before we left) taped at all loose feeling parts......I can't even fit the tip of a needle all the way under the lid.
we were also told that he was fed thursday...every thursday....guaranteed feeder on pinkie mice......
can't wait to try!
And maybe maybe ONE DAY we will have pics. lol....................MAYBE.
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