You can't afford to pass up a good deal on some Eastern's when you get it! Which is why I took in a captive bred Eastern hatchling a couple of months ago. We got it eating scented pinkies (letting some captive toads bite them and getting their saliva on them), after only a few short weeks of that, we can leave unscented pinkies in with it and it disappears!

We did have an elderly volunteer get bit by one of our largest and oldest Easterns. She did a show with owls and had the smell of leather from the glove on her hands. The hognose clamped right onto her! We ran the snake and finger under water and progressively made it warmer until it let go. This is a good opportunity... this lady claims she is allergic to everything, and she had no adverse effects whatsoever from this bite. We all love this one Eastern, she goes into the feeding frenzy mode, and we have to make sure she does not bite her own tail! We have even gotten her to eat a small cube of Mazuri's carnivorous reptile and amphibian gel diet! This is also the only hognose we have gotten to eat minnows as well.
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...the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it."
Aldo Leopold (1938)

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