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my hognose stop trying to bite me and its not the fake bite it already got me once and ive felt teeth almost sink in a few times any ideas
01/28/08  03:55am

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   Message To: Alfie9590   In reference to Message Id: 1598000


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Wow, everybody’s still clueless, huh?
If they weren’t mildly venomous, I’d say just take it and prove that biting you is pointless, but you really don’t want to get chewed by a hognose. Is it still happening?
02/05/08  02:11am

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yes every time i go in the cage he comes after me



02/06/08  07:09pm

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Have you tried giving him something? Like one hand with a heavy work glove, and one that you can feel what you’re doing with, and any time he strikes use the shield hand to block with? After a few mouthfuls of leather, his bluff instinct may pull itself together.
How’s his overall health? Eating okay and everything? I mean, he might just be a cranky snake, but far too often "unusually aggressive" turns out later to have meant "having very painful medical issues."
02/07/08  02:50am

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I’ll have to try the glove

hes extremely healthy he eats fine i have a hard time getting pinkie rats so i land up buying him like seven fuzzes and he has a Field day with them i don’t try to hold him for a few days later hes in a big tank to so its not like hes to confined
02/10/08  02:25am

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   Message To: Alfie9590   In reference to Message Id: 1617384


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When he actually bit you, was he hissing or just grabbing at you? If the latter, it’s a feeding response. If that’s the case you can retrain him by developing a specific feeding protocol, such as always putting the food in a dish in the same spot. And give him all the mice at the same time, so he doesn’t strongly associate hands going in and out with "Yay, more for me to chew on!" If he’s had some feeding confusion PLUS is showing aggressive displays, the aggressive displays are probably still just bluff. Unless he was hissing loudly when you felt the teeth. In that case... maybe buy a book on normal hognose behavior and read it to him?
02/11/08  11:35pm


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