Cool Snake

[Chompers]

After spending 8 days at the ranch this week and seeing multiple coachwhips out and about, I almost stepped on a snake I’ve never seen on our place and thought I’d never see anywhere. He/she was 30”-34” and y’all tell me different but I am 99% positive it’s an Eastern Hognose. Mills county.

[Burnadell]

Oh emm gee, a cobra! At first, I thought it had a head at each end.

[piercebronkite]

Hognose for sure.

[Chompers]

Originally Posted by Burnadell

Oh emm gee, a cobra! At first, I thought it had a head at each end.

Leave it to the godfather to post the first Cobra comment

[muzzlebrake]

Old stinky spread N adder.

[Lawhunter]

Those are definitely cool snakes.

[Jaybo31]

30-34" is a biggun. All the ones I've ever come across were about the length of an average copperhead. Those are some toad eating suckers. The can put on quite a drama show too.

[bobc]

Neat looking critter. Never seen one in the wild.


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[3DW5]

Very cool…

[Bard]

First they raise up like a Cobra and when that doesn't work they rattle their tail like a Rattler and if that doesn't work they flop over on their back and spit blood all over like they just got crushed under your tire. They are dramatic little guys.

[Hoggslayer]

That's the same kind of cobra I saw in the feed room of the barn when I was a kid. I through a gallon coffee can of hen scratch at it and ran like hell.

[bbbuck]

I’ve only seen before. Cool snake.

[curtintex]

East Texas Cobra

[Gumbo Man]

Not sure how they smell but I’m sure I’d smell pretty bad if I almost stepped on it.

[sasqy]

Had one as a pet, when I was a kid !
Took him outside to walk and he ran away.
Or rather slithered into the bushes.

[dosrobles]

Any live snake with in 10 feet of me is a pee pee snake

[okrattler]

That's what it is. I've never seen a black one. Up here they're a different color phase,same species.

One of my favorite snakes.

[Brute Killer]

I've only seen those things a couple times on our place just north of Pleasanton.

[Brute Killer]

What I meant to say was, 'that's what she said'.

[Tbar]

Awesome...!!!

Here is a different color variation as seen in Wood County.

Hognose Snake

[32drawlength]

I’d like to see one someday

[RangerRick2012]

Love those hognose. Such a dramatic snake.

[bboswell]

Cool snakes, I have seen many on our place but never near that big!

[RifleBowPistol]

The first hognose snake I ever saw, when I was little kid, was black like that, it was at least twice that length. All of the ones I have seen since, were mostly brown and between 14" long to about 22" long.

[Chompers]

Originally Posted by RifleBowPistol

The first hognose snake I ever saw, when I was little kid, was black like that, it was at least twice that length. All of the ones I have seen since, were mostly brown and between 14" long to about 22" long.

How big it was is what made me question if it was a Hognose

[Gunnyart]

Couldn't understand why no one would believe me when I was a kid when I told them I saw a cobra.

[okrattler]

The Eastern Hognose gets bigger than the Western Hognose. I have an Eastern Hognose at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays, Kansas. He was 48 5/8".

[W-O]

Definitely cool snakes

[Chompers]

Originally Posted by Tbar

Awesome...!!!

Here is a different color variation as seen in Wood County.

Hognose Snake

It’s crazy cool how many colors they can be

[Thad_Castle]

I came across this guy a few weeks ago near Lake Travis. Super docile.




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[basschsr]

Cool how they will roll over and play dead with their tongue hanging. Caught a few of them here at the house near cedar creek lake. Not sure what variation of hognose they were but kinda cool to plat with

[wheels]

Set those rat traps for him to check

[Chompers]

We do get some big rats

[Benno]

One of the few snakes I’ll actually handle. Been fortunate enough to come across probably more than a half dozen of them.

[Chompers]

I came across another hognose today and it was patterned like the one Castle posted. I have heard people say they won’t bite and sometimes play dead… well let me tell you this one didn’t do either. It was showing its mouth and struck anytime I got close enough. Hopefully the next one “if” will be nicer.

[Mule Skinner]

Originally Posted by Chompers

I came across another hognose today and it was patterned like the one Castle posted. I have heard people say they won’t bite and sometimes play dead… well let me tell you this one didn’t do either. It was showing its mouth and struck anytime I got close enough. Hopefully the next one “if” will be nicer.

When they do strike, their mouths usually remain closed.

It’s all a part of their dramatic bluff.

[Chompers]

If it’s a bluff then it worked on me. This one acted like a coachwhip when they are ticked

[bullets13]

Hope to see one one day

[Death from Above]

Puff ader…we had one in a fishtank once…he would scare folks to death that didnt know what he was.

[Gerald G]

I found several small ones over a 2-3 day period on a job site a few years ago.

[Geezy Rider]

Drama queens. Fun snakes.

[ken800]

Originally Posted by Gerald G

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I found several small ones over a 2-3 day period on a job site a few years ago.

Wow, great pic!

[okrattler]

After all this rain we've had lately I'll be really surprised if I don't see at least one hognose. They love eatin toads and they're out in full force so the snakes should be too.

[muzzlebrake]

I used to find them fairly often up in Grayson and Fannin counties when I was a kid. Found several that had just caught a toad frog and was swallowing it.

[okrattler]

I saw a Western Hognose a few months ago but someone had smashed his head with their vehicle.

Hate seeing that. They're such cool snakes and they won't bite. No reason to kill one.

[FIRETX12]

Originally Posted by Death from Above

Puff ader…we had one in a fishtank once…he would scare folks to death that didnt know what he was.

Definitely not a Puff Adder. Thankfully we don’t have those here. The nickname that hognose have had in Texas is “Speadin’ Adder”

[jay07ag]

Originally Posted by Bard

First they raise up like a Cobra and when that doesn't work they rattle their tail like a Rattler and if that doesn't work they flop over on their back and spit blood all over like they just got crushed under your tire. They are dramatic little guys.

Not to mention poop/pee and cover themselves in it if all else fails. They try every trick in the book! Ive messed with a bunch of them I know! Cool little guys though.

[TX_Kevin]

I am just going to say do not stick one in your pocket because the school bus is coming, and then forget about it until second period. And no, the pretty girl named Robin in your second period class does not want to see it. Neither does the teacher. I know this from experience.

[Mule Skinner]

From Duval Co. last spring. Almost stepped on it.