My baby male Western Hognose is not a happy snake when I let him out of his feeding container. I never thought a snake could be so moody! The following posts show his transition from ill-tempered to friendly...
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My baby male Western Hognose is not a happy snake when I let him out of his feeding container. I never thought a snake could be so moody! The following posts show his transition from ill-tempered to friendly...
Here is Roscoe when he is first let out: coiled, hissing, puffing and striking at everything that moves.

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>>Here is Roscoe when he is first let out: coiled, hissing, puffing and striking at everything that moves.
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spoiling it."
Aldo Leopold (1938)
After a couple minutes he settles down a bit but is still cautious, suspicious, and does not like to be handled quite yet.

Another few minutes pass and he returns to the friendly, easily-handled, angel-of-a-snake that I know him to be.

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