Thanks for sharing your story!

An old herper from back in the day showed me a hognose that bit him on the ankle. He did not pull the snake off right away, and it chewed down far enough to get the fangs in. This guy's ankle swelled up pretty big for almost 2 days, then returned to normal. I saw a pic of the swelling.

Too bad you don't have a copy of that picture, that would've been interesting to see.

As I've said before, I don't actually think that Western Hognose venom is particularly dangerous as, to my knowledge, there are no reported cases of people being seriously injured or suffered long term effects from a hognose envenomation, just cases of extreme swelling and pain that last for several days and eventually subside.

With that said, despite my interesting experience from my hognose bite, I think I'd still rather suffer a bite from a hognose than from a rattlesnake any day.
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Troy Rexroth
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