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My female grabbed her own tail yesterday while feeding

For size reference, that is an adult mouse

Luckily she released her tail quickly. She got a chick as a treat too

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Marcel Poots (Holland)
'Where is your crown King Nothing?' James Hettfield

lol that must've been pretty funny to watch.
Michael
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I feed my SK other snakes, that doesn't make me a bad person, don't cry about it next time(there will be a next time lol)
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edited sig file. [phw 7/27/04]

WOW! You feed her chicks? No wonder she's so big!

My biggest female just shed, and her shed skin is at least 34" and that's a conservative estimate because the skin isn’t exactly straight. How big did you say this girl of yours was again?
Those are great pics.
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James

>How big did you say this girl of yours was again?
>>Those are great pics.

James,

She is a bit longer than her 32 inch cage..

Marcel

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Marcel Poots (Holland)
'Where is your crown King Nothing?' James Hettfield

There have been reports on this forum about hognoses biting themselves and dying shortly after. Although I do not have all of the details committed to memory, nor can I speculate on a mechanism, I would consider an event like this to be serious enough to separate the snake from itself immediately. Since it is technically venomous, can anybody provide their theories on a mechanism as to why a Hognose would die from biting itself?
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>>There have been reports on this forum about hognoses biting themselves and dying shortly after. Although I do not have all of the details committed to memory, nor can I speculate on a mechanism, I would consider an event like this to be serious enough to separate the snake from itself immediately. Since it is technically venomous, can anybody provide their theories on a mechanism as to why a Hognose would die from biting itself?

Well, she is still alive today (two days later). I think she suffered nothing from it. But I can imagion it could have gone wrong.
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Marcel Poots (Holland)
'Where is your crown King Nothing?' James Hettfield

Mine bit herself like 2 months ago and is still thriving today!!

If you hadn't she might have eaten herself and you would have never found her, or known why she was missing.

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