Kenabec and Niizh

[Garter_Gertie]

Well, I'm going to be toddling here soon. I'm drunker'un a skunk. Been a long day.

In addition to having folks wander through here to see if they want to buy this duplex, I got Kenabec and Niizh today. Christ. I've never seen cuter babies than 6 +/- week old Hoggies! THEY ARE SO CUTE! I mean REALLY CUTE! Their eyes are smaller than the big end of a pin... And their wee sweet turned up noses BEG TO BE KISSED! And their color! LORD!

Kenabec, normal, is a rusty/browny color on a cream background. Niizh, the green is green spots surrounded by a creamish/greenish background.

Both baby boys are sleeping under the Repti-bark right now. It's taking EVERYTHING I'VE GOT to not bother them and hug and kiss them! SO WEE AND SWEET!

Life is good. I've the cutest Hoggies ever! My boys!

[jitami]

Awww, congratulations Gertie! Glad the boys finally arrived! After they wake up kiss their little noses for me :)

[GartersRock]

YAYYYYY!!!!!! Awesome!!! So happy for you!!!! Hoggies are just WAY to adorable...
I am getting this guy this month!!
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Have you ever seen one like it? He's a local wild caught I ran across someone on craigslist asking about. Wow.... Sorry. Had to share on the subject of the wonderful hoggies!!

Again Gertie!! I am SOOOO excited for you!!!! WHOOHOO!!!

[Snake lover 3-25]

congrats!!!!! good luck leaving them be!!!! lol :p PICS!!!!!!

[count dewclaw]

Congratulations!

[Aundrea]

awww congrats to both of you!!!!!!!! That snake is cute.. Wanna see more pics!!! :D

[Lexa]

Woo! New snakies! Please post pics soon - as you know, I'm a hoggie fan...hehe. Out of interest, how did you think of those names?

[Garter_Gertie]

Ladies, THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Come on you guys, you know I don't have a camera! I'm working the Great Minnesota Get-Together, aka State Fair, this coming Thurs. If the breeder will let me take K & N - I'm supposed to leave them alone for an ENTIRE WEEK!!! - I'll get some pics then. Dave will have his camera - and I'll remind him to take it.

Lexa, I put my order in for Kenabec ('ken-aybeck') before I ever got the Peeps and Jeeps Meisters. I wanted a snake I could take to the park so we could have some different species native to Minnesota besides Ripley, the bull snake, and Winnie the garter.

I wanted a name worth of a Hoggy, the park and all that. Kenabec is Ojibway for "snake." The Snake River runs through Kenabec County here in MN. Kenabec WAS going to be the only snake I got but when I saw the breeder also had a green - green being my favorite color and I wear it every day... I'm a wee bit obsessive... - Hoggy, I dibsed it even though he was twice as much as Kenabec.

I wanted to name him Green, but the Ojibway word for green is like 10 letters long and I knew I'd never be able to pronounce it OR remember it! So I found Niizh ('knee-ge' with the ge like in garage or mirage) which is "two." I thought that pretty fitting and easy to boot! :D

'Rockster, you can talk about your Hoggy here! Fine with me!

No, I've never seen a Hoggy like that! I know there's a tri-colored Hoggy, but I've no wish to see one. Harmless or not I cannot stand tri-colored snakes. Old coral snake fears from living in Florida. You just wanna be a copy cat, 'Rockster!

Lexa, well... I guess you're gonna have to study up and then bite the bullet and get you a Hoggy. I don't see much else you can do. Lori has one, I'm pretty sure. And while I'm new to Hoggies AND garters, I'll help you as much as I can.

One thing I do know and I'm playing the odds here, but Hoggies are NOT like garters and you usually/shouldn't keep more than one in an enclosure. They're canabalistic, the females usually more so than the males. That's why mine are males.

It can be done, but I've been told not to be surpised if one gets eaten. But the breeder said to feed them seperately and then let them settle down and relax in their feeding containers an hour or so before putting them back in their tank. One thing I have in my favor, well... Two other things I have in my favor is they're the same size and same age.

You can'thand feed these guys like you can garters. :( Because of their toxin. I don't know for a fact, but I've been told the affect is accumulative, with reactions getting worse as time goes on. (shrugs shoulders)

I tell'ya. If I didn't have Peepers and Jeepers to take my love out on I'd be digging up the Hoggy tank right this minute!

[infernalis]

MK, I know this is late by my standards... Usually right on it whenever new snakies arrive so here goes.......

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[Garter_Gertie]

WOOT!!! WOOT!!! I gots the Happy Dance!

Thanks, Dekay. I wish we lived closer, I'd drive the new boys over to show you.

Can I tell you? Watching a Hoggy tank is about as xciting and entertaining as watching a glacier melt...

[infernalis]

Can I tell you? Watching a Hoggy tank is about as xciting and entertaining as watching a glacier melt...

Hey now, I bet the part where 100,000 tons of million year old ice sheers off the front and falls into the ocean is rather exciting to watch.

Unless you happen to be fishing from a small boat parked 50 yards away:eek:

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[GartersRock]

Lol!! Awesome!
Well I wish we could see pics... Oh well.
Your names are so GREAT. As soon as I find out the gender of my hoggy I can't wait to give him a "silly" name! They are just so CUTE.

[Garter_Gertie]

Babe would be cute for a girl...

[GartersRock]

Oh yeah! lol! I wish I was so witty with names...

[infernalis]

Babe would be cute for a girl...


Awesome:D .

[Garter_Gertie]

So would Suey. :D

[Garter_Gertie]

If I'm so good at figuring out names, why did I name my poor children Peepers and Jeepers?????????????????????????????

[GartersRock]

Those are CUTE!! Names!!! Don't ever say poor children... lol!

[infernalis]

If I'm so good at figuring out names, why did I name my poor children Peepers and Jeepers?????????????????????????????

Jeepers creepers where did you get them peepers:D Think hard, have another cup o coffee.. It will all come back to ya.

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[anji1971]

Congratulations Gertie! I know how much you've been looking forward to those babies!
Enjoy!:)

[Garter_Gertie]

I couldn't take it. I dug. And I REALLY DID get two Hoggies yesterday. Niizh has gone back underground, but Kenabec is exploring and I'm getting to watch him! He's just a baby, but as long as P & J! And he moves a lot slower...

Otay. He's back under.

Note to self: Next time fall in love with nonburrowing snakes.

[GartersRock]

Glad to hear thye are doing well!! My friend picked up my hoggy today!! Check him out!!
And she says he is looking dry and dull from being kept in a jar!! WC's usually brighten up after a couple of sheds!! Wow!
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Just thought I would share in the hoggy excitment!!

[Loren]

Amanda, that Hog is awesome!

[infernalis]

Amanda I likey!! very nice looking critter. One day I would like to have one of those.

I am very fond of red and crimson colors on snakes, that little hoggie is awesome.

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[GartersRock]

YAYY!!!! Happy dance!!!!!!!!! :D

[GartersRock]

I have had a good number of breeders tell me they have only ever seen one hognose as red as that and his pattern is different.

[infernalis]

Had to change it, can't have the same kitty twice on the same thread:D

[GartersRock]

Hey! I got to see both!! It's a double whammy!! :D

[anji1971]

It's just hoggie heaven here today!!:D
Congrats to you too, Amanda!:)

[Snake lover 3-25]

congrats!!!!!:D

[Garter_Gertie]

Amanda, is that really his color? For REAL? Honest? That's like the most amazing Hoggy I've ever seen! He's not dyed is he? Not be an old poop, but HOLEY BUCKETS that guy's RED!

Congratulations! He's a sweet fat Hoggy! Hoo hoo! He's mad and hissy flattened!

Glad you got him sooner than later. Did he play dead for you? They lose it pretty quickly in cpativity, but...

[Garter_Gertie]

Hehe! One o'the boys is a travelin' little man! Checkin' out his tank. He went in his mossy house and I guess liked it. He's just scopin' the joint like crazy! I can't tell which o'the two he is because of the lighting. I need to learn their markings but that's hard to do when you never see them! I think it's Kenabec.

I am so blessed to have my four boys. Wonderful animals.

[Loren]

Sounds like it. :)

[GartersRock]

Yep... And he is freshly wild caught and they are usually duller and brighten up with a few sheds in clean captivity. I don't even want to GUESS what he is gonna look like... WHEW! I emailed a bunch of big hoggy breeders and everyone says he is the reddest they have seen but for one that was about that or less red.... Ahh!!
I SOO hope he breeds true!! My own line of hoggies would be so freaking cool!

Hasn't played dead... But he hasn't let up on the hooding!! Soo fun! I just LOVE him! It's a boy by the way. :D

I love watching my snakies move around their tanks, just checking things out!! You'll get the markings figured out soon. ;) They sound so cute I wish I could see them! Someone send that woman a camera!! :)

[drache]

Can I tell you? Watching a Hoggy tank is about as xciting and entertaining as watching a glacier melt...

Casey Jones, our hagnose, is always at the front of the tank wanting to come out - "pacing"
the moment we take him out, he calms down, looks around and settles


Glad to hear thye are doing well!! My friend picked up my hoggy today!! Check him out!!
And she says he is looking dry and dull from being kept in a jar!! WC's usually brighten up after a couple of sheds!! Wow!


that is the most amazing hog I've ever seen, Amanda
I do very much hope, there'll be offspring some day
one like that would be completely outside my wish list constraints

[GartersRock]

Thanks Rhea!
I hope so too! :cool: First thing first I have to get him eating and big! Should be fun. :rolleyes:

[crzy_kevo]

congrats rockster very pretty snake i love that red

[GartersRock]

Thanks Kevie!

Did you see my post count? :D

[crzy_kevo]

ouch lol those past couple days of not being on killed me lol

[GartersRock]

Lol!! I didn't think I would pass you. lol! I have been on here like crazy though.

[Garter_Gertie]

HEHEHEHEHEHE!

Niizh ate his pinky! Kenabec is on a hunger strike, prolly holding out for mac & jeez (Kraft) or beans & weenies - neither o'which he's gonna get.

And I got to see Niizh POOP! YEP! Very cute! Raised his little tail (Hoggies' tails seem to be a lot shorter than garters...) and pooed as cute as you please!

Since he ate about two hours ago he's not stopped bein' a travelin' kind'a Joe and is all over his tank and even climbing on wood and literally hangin' out! W00T!!! W00T!!! He's a cigar-lookin' kind'a guy and is SO OOT AND ABOOT! I just love it!

I've held him and he just keeps crawling over my hands and then I let him down on the desk and he side-winds all over the place. Not one whit scared o'nuttin'!

I LOVE MY SNAKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GartersRock]

[quote=Garter_Gertie;74576]HEHEHEHEHEHE!

And I got to see Niizh POOP! YEP! Very cute! Raised his little tail (Hoggies' tails seem to be a lot shorter than garters...) and pooed as cute as you please!
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CUTE CUTE CUTE!! And only snake people would say something like that. :p

[jitami]

Gotta love it Gertie! Yay! Good boy Niizh!!!

[Garter_Gertie]

Yeah, my gullfiends. Only a muzzer or a fazzer can love a baby's patoot and watching said baby poo! :)

I don't like watching Pickles and/or Mayo poo, but a snakey... Oh! So CUTE! Raising his tail so daintily! :)

Yeah. I've got it bad. A confirmed snake-a-holic.

Please. No interventions you guys. THANKS!

[infernalis]

Please. No interventions you guys. THANKS!


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[Garter_Gertie]

Dekay, have I told you lately I love you?

No?

I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!