#Hognoses

[scoriarose]

I'm a strong independent woman!

Don't need no man.

Gonna make it on my own.

[defilerwyrm]

Astarion has grown a lot since I got him! He's still just a tiny sassy baby though. But this morning, after his usual tantrum of hiss-and-lunge posturing was done, he let me scoop him up without complaint and was a dream to handle. We're breaking through!

[toasty-hotpocket]

[spiderlovergirl]

After working a very long day, I came home to see my snake Cheddar sitting like this. It was so cute! It made my day.

[hne-sne-sne]

MY SWEET BABY IS GOING THROUGH PUBERTY

[prismaticsaltedink]

Me: Gives Sakura a hide she can curl up in underground and peek out of

Sakura:

Well. It's hers. I suppose she can relax in it however she wants.

[tired-inyxe]

Hi im coming here from your submission to Apollo day to ask for snake pictures please and thank you :)

Oh absolutely anon, here’s some photos of my bbs!

This is Melon, my ball python. She’s about a year and a half old and is a special morph. She’s rather shy but extremely sweet :3

This is Orange Dreamcicle, my hognose. Hes a few months old and an albino morph. He’s also STUPID and a silly little worm and I love him dearly

[butteredpopcorn7]

This is my snake Mawce. Sometimes he tries to burrow into my hand. I would die for him.

[berntkat]

Happy Lunar New Year!

It’s the year of the snake. And I love hognose snakes. So I painted one. I had this image in my head for a while so I figured it needed to get out.

I started drawing more of a kagami mochi inspiration, but it’s now 11p on the night of LNY so I figure this is good enough. Lol. Maybe next time I’ll get the sanpō (the stand).

[akirameta84]

i got a new baby today! this is Mars! he's a tri-color hognose <3

i adore him sm. even if he's already long since disappeared in the substrate lol

[mitzi]

This is Persimmon, she’s about 1.5yrs old now. She got a little bit of aspen stuck to the top of her head and it looks like a tiny cowlick.

She’s a sweetie and also a dork. Here she is in her “toddler” bin, she’s still small enough to comfortably use a plastic tote as her enclosure while I work on her permanent enclosure.

[scoriarose]

It's difficult to know what our beloved pets want; doubly so when they have no facial expressions and can't make many sounds.

Here's a quick and easy way to communicate with your snake! Specifically, finding out where they'd like to go! I start out by playing a game I call "airplane" where they are the pilot and my hand flies them around. At first they usually don't realize they are in control, and I usually end up slowly flying them into a wall. When they look away from the wall I'll fly in that direction. Some catch on faster than others, but at a certain point your pet will realize, "Hey, I go whatever direction I'm looking in!" and instead of being a helpless passenger being carried, they actively decide what they'd like to explore!

Learning this is great as it not only gives them a way to communicate with you and feel empowered, but it will also encourage them to try to communicate even even not being held. It's a great way to let your snake explore if you can't let them go on the ground and free roam.

In this video you can see a very simple example of how this helped me know where Scoria wanted to be put in her enclosure. She directed me where she wanted to go, and once I had her in the correct place, off she went!

Once your pet realizes they can communicate with you, it's important to pay attention and reward their behavior (so long as it will not put them in danger) to reinforce that this action works. They might even try other actions to communicate specific things- Scoria made up her own gesture for "I'm tired and want to go to bed for the night." She'll dig with her nose at the palm of my hand- and only does it then! I'm curious if anyone else's snake created their own "words".

(This is different than even Scoria burrows between my fingers. Maybe times she will sweetly nuzzle them too. That's play and affection! Palm digging is only for when she's done for the day, I think she was trying to communicate she wanted to burrow to her den to sleep, and me putting her to bed enforced this, so we both know her doing this action results in her being put back.)

[thistlebugs]

I can’t believe I haven’t posted my newest baby, Nacho. He’s an albino anaconda hognose 🐽

He’s so cute

[shiftyarchfey]

So uh. I have another boy

Literal boy in this case, he is bby

[spiderlovergirl]

I got a hognose snake on Thursday!!

Her name is Cheddar!

[mynam3wastaken]

Lil dudes new setup with his underground basking spot because he keeps moving his stuff to make them for some reason????

Like he’s not burrowing he’s fully redecorating????