As I mentioned here many times, I only recently started in depth work with hognose, almost two years ago. In that time, I have seen 201 individual hogs, of which, 166 were seen alive by me. The others were either DOR's or discovered by others with me.

Over the years, I have found hognose in the field in, Texas, New Mexico, Az. Kansas(dor) and Mexico. Those are westerns and Kennerlyi. I have also seen Easterns and southerns in the field. In the distant past, I have captive bred, easterns, southerns, and westerns. When I did, I had no real interest in them and simply plugged them into normal colubrid breeding. Also in the past, finding them was a bi-product of looking for other species.
I almost began working with them in the early seventies. Which is a funny story. I was working with alterna, I think it was in 1973. I was hunting north of Comstock, on both 163 and pandale rds. I saw several hogs. I did not take any, as I had collected a pair of Blairs and a beautiful alterna. On my way to the Christmas mts, just west of Alpine, I found a huge beautiful female hog. I decided to take it and pair it up. Once in the Christmas mts, I was very lucky and found two alternas in ten minutes, so I drove the hog back to exactly where I found it and released it. From then to now, I wanted to work with hogs, but was always busy working with other species.
A couple of years ago, my wife decided she was tried of climbing mountains and wanted to see some other species. One was boas, so in the last two years, we have done that. She actually found and picked up a boa constrictor all by herself in mexico on a work related trip.(impressive indeed) And she loves hogging. Absolutely loves it. So there you go.
As I mentioned here, I am new to hogs, but as most already understand, I have been in depth in the field for over fifty years. pt1

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