I agree...I mean, a hognose might gorge itself when it finds food but think of how often food is not available or at least plentiful. They go weeks, even months, without eating while waiting for their next meal. They have to stuff themselves in order to last. In captivity, this instinct is still around. And it can cause trouble. Take a look at the what kind of snake forum as the corn snake I just got. It is 4.5 and has been fed jumbo rats (yikes) for the past while...it is now horribly obese. If you want to let your snake "pig out" so to speak, then give it a while off to digest and get the mouse out of its system. Obesity can cause all sorts of problems, and as mentioned a common one is liver failure, though other problems can arise as well. But to each his own . Happy herping. Andy
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Andy Maddox
Houston Herp Key
The Reptizone

Who are you who can say it's ok to live through me? Alice In Chains

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• How many mice a week do you feed your hogs?? np - repzoo44, Wed Aug 13 21:49:57 2003
• RE: How many mice a week do you feed your hogs?? np - scoop, Thu Aug 14 12:32:25 2003
• RE: How many mice a week do you feed your hogs?? np - snakeguy88, Thu Aug 14 16:34:20 2003
• I agree with you - colby, Fri Aug 15 00:18:07 2003
• Another poor wild vs. captive analogy - Colchicine, Fri Aug 15 07:15:48 2003
• I tend to feed my snakes less ... - repzoo44, Fri Aug 15 15:43:56 2003
• My turn - colby, Fri Aug 15 21:22:19 2003
• RE: My turn - Colchicine, Sat Aug 16 20:54:02 2003
• RE: My turn - meretseger, Sun Aug 17 06:47:14 2003
• RE: My turn - snakeguy88, Tue Aug 19 20:30:31 2003
• One. np - Colchicine, Thu Aug 14 19:19:52 2003