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Old 02-13-16, 01:56 AM   #1
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Meet Hoggle! Aka my friends are all enablers.

So my lps got in a couple of hognose babies last week and I've been thinking about them all week. Of my 4 best snake friends, 2 have hoggies and another is actively looking to get one. If 3/4 of your closest snake friends are in love with the species, it's pretty hard not to fall in love, too. Upon saying that I was sort of wanting to hold them and maybe even buy one... My friends did nothing but gush about how much they loved hoggies. Sold. Today, I went to two different pet stores and came home with a little 3 month old female I've named Hoggle. She also goes by any of the various Hog-names you can think of, especially those used by Jareth. She's super sweet! Minkness said she looks like she might have some Purple line genetics going on.

We had to make a couple stops on the way home so it took 3 hours to get home and a trip to Walmart but she didn't seem to care much and is now investigating her new home.








Belly pic! She has a small scar a little bit above her cloaca but it doesn't seem to be an issue.


Exploring her new home. Paper towels for a couple weeks to monitor, then aspen chips.


That brings the total to three in a year and a half.
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Old 02-13-16, 02:39 AM   #2
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Re: Meet Hoggle! Aka my friends are all enablers.

Yay! Another one to add to the fandom! ^_^
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Old 02-13-16, 02:42 AM   #3
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Re: Meet Hoggle! Aka my friends are all enablers.

I think we all need to have an RA meeting... At least this one isn't going to get 6ft or need a giant cage...
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Re: Meet Hoggle! Aka my friends are all enablers.

Congratulations! They truly are wonderful additions. They have a very distinct personality too.
Hard to believe they are all that small one day.
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Old 02-13-16, 08:44 AM   #5
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love the name hoggle! great looking snakes.
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So tiny! I need one so bad! Post lots more pictures of your new friend
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Old 02-13-16, 03:07 PM   #7
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Thanks! She's just too cute. I would guesstimate to length to be about 6 inches. Can't wait to weigh her for the first time. Usually super tiny snakes scare me because I'm afraid of hurting them or dropping them but she hangs on and is robust enough that I'm okay. She's housed in my kingsnake's baby cage.
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She's awesome, keep us updated.
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Old 02-14-16, 05:07 AM   #9
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Of course I will! So, I checked on her after I got home from work tonight. When I went to work she was out, curled up behind her black hide. When I came home, she was inside the hide. I was mainly looking for poo and I found one on one of the paper towels that she was partially laying on. I had to disturb her to clean so I figured that it wouldn't hurt to take an extra couple seconds to quickly weigh her. I've been dying to know what she weighs. She had three poos in her deli cup and one on the towel, she ate on Wednesday. Therefore, she should be fairly empty even if not completely empty. Took a couple shots, got her weight, then kindly returned her. Took less than five minutes. I know you're not supposed to bother them at all for at least a week but oh well. She didn't seem to mind all that much except she did look a little puffy necked at first, ever so slightly.

I also really love her little head spot.


Pictures taken with flash in my kitchen seem to give the best snake coloring on my phone. The flash makes her a little lighter/brighter than I get to see her with my own eyes but otherwise pretty accurate. It's also the best place for BRB photos in my house.


My scale sometimes changes by 1g. So... Call her 11g..


Or call her 10g.


Hoggle has no heat at the moment because with my house windows open all night.. this little heat wave we're having is keeping the house mid-70s all night. I heard it's supposed to be 90 soon. Already? And we had an earthquake tonight because the ground is so unhappy with the dramatic swings. A few weeks ago it was freezing and pouring rain. What happened? Should I blame the groundhog? Anyway, her tank has a heatpad but no thermostat so my new thermostat should be here on Monday. I was going to use it for my BRB but he's only going to use his for what? A few more weeks at most? If it wasn't for winter nights in my bedroom getting down to 60, I probably wouldn't need a heat pad at all for him!

Don't mind the mess, I need to clean my shelving unit. It's full of sytrofoam for future snake use if needed, school books, supplies, paper... so much paper.. random sheep skull bits... My king is in the APcage, Hoggle is in the tiny one below it. It's got the dimensions of a short 10g basically. Hoggle has no thermometer (ignore the stuck on one on the side because this was my king's baby cage) but I have a laser temp gun so I don't actually need one, especially since there's no heat yet. The plastic lid on top is just to keep my cat from sitting on the screen and bending it. After his first omg snake fit, he's been good about leaving her alone so far. I have five cats but one is extremely crazy about snakes while all the others only notice them when they realize there is one a short distance away from them in my hands or wiggling on the ground. I lock the crazy one up when I have them out, but I can control the others well enough that I don't need to lock them up. I am extremely cautious and the cats are generally not ever within three feet of any snake. I already had one accident with my king and freaked out over it (long story short, cleaning her cage, she flew out unexpectedly and fell to the ground. Not wanting her to get attacked or lost, I immediately swoop to grab her and on my way up, my crazy cat swiped her with a claw. He was out because I wasn't planning on having her out so it should have been perfectly safe.)
Anyway, you can actually see both Hoggle and Eir in this picture, can you spot them?
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Re: Meet Hoggle! Aka my friends are all enablers.

Nice addition! I think everyone here know I love my hoggies!!

I would suggest access to heat of 90 to 92 degrees at all times. I will also say that if your ambients drop much below 74 you will have an infrequent feeder on your hands. Just some thoughts.
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Thanks for the tips! Her thermostat came today and its been low 80s every afternoon this weekend so she's been okay. Didn't get the chance to get food so she had to wait until tomorrow
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I'm so jealous!!!
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I love her, so cute!
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Today as I was getting ready for work [I sit beside the cages every day and my king often comes out to watch me], I noticed that Hoggle was rearranging her cage. She moved her hide and starting trying to dig under it so she was popping it up. All I could see of her was her tiny tail tip and it was wagging. So cute. I tried to get a video but she moved her tail under some of the paper towels so it didn't work so well.
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I don't think she even has to try...
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