Teddy Roosevelt
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Corals are not rear fanged. They just have small fixed fangs.
TBH if the Hog got me I may think about it......Hognoses are rear-fanged, right? Like coral snakes? IIRC, coral snakes kinda have to chew on the prey to inject their venom. Same thing with a hognose? If my understanding is correct, I don't think I'm worried. Certainly not enough to stop me to get from getting a cute snake like one of these!
TBH if the Hog got me I may think about it......
If the Coral got me you'd be able to smell it.....
Hognoses are rear-fanged, right? Like coral snakes? IIRC, coral snakes kinda have to chew on the prey to inject their venom. Same thing with a hognose? If my understanding is correct, I don't think I'm worried. Certainly not enough to stop me to get from getting a cute snake like one of these!
Don't worry, Chris, I grew up in FL so I knew that coral snakes were quite dangerous. What I had apparently gotten wrong all those years ago was I thought corals were rear fanged & had to chew. Somebody corrected me on that. Since I ~had~ been correctly taught coral venom was quite toxic, I never tried to touch them, so my error on envenomation was not disastrous. I gather that hognoses are not truly dangerous hots, though.
Hognoses are rear-fanged, right? Like coral snakes? IIRC, coral snakes kinda have to chew on the prey to inject their venom. Same thing with a hognose? If my understanding is correct, I don't think I'm worried. Certainly not enough to stop me to get from getting a cute snake like one of these!
First of all, did you get the hognose?
Then, I thought it was somewhat funny, I had thought about getting a hognose, it was between that & a garter. I eventually decided on the garter, mainly because I didn't want to take the chance with the "warm" hognose, then found out about a month & a half ago that garters are a "warm" snake too & are mildly venomous. So much for that idea!
This article is actually more humorous, there was a serious article that I read too, but can't find it at the moment. However what this article is talking about is real. You can look up the name of the gland & get some more info on it.
http://www.anapsid.org/duvernoygland.html
I eventually decided on the garter, mainly because I didn't want to take the chance with the "warm" hognose, then found out about a month & a half ago that garters are a "warm" snake too & are mildly venomous. So much for that idea!