little-snacke

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warm tree hassss . Not bothrd me in too dayss... I hav ben abandone

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i issss norml.... i beecom bloo wen shed :<

amn.... beecom..... zombee !!!!!!

updat soon...

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!!!!!!! isss me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

western hognose.. they're such cute little beasts

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Very scary young animal

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amn.... beecom..... zombee !!!!!!

updat soon...

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wood u lov Me if i. was a worm.......

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he isss. a Cowboy .. cowssnak? ssnekboy .,,,

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i back!!!! sssssory gone four evr

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..... eye may hav. Gotten a Litle impatint ,,,,,,

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y are . yhere no mor Foode .,,,,,,,,,... :<(

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iam ssssorry . But iam not a sssnake ,,,,,..... iam inch Worm..,

sssssike !! iam not worm,,,, iam sssnek!!1 Did i Trik yoo .??

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D>:

Your ramen is ready. 🍜

*SLUUUUURP*

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Every Tiny Reptile Club design from 2022!

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frend !??? Freind,.,..., ??? :<D ...

He can never be in a normal position for pictures

[ID: two pictures of Pretzel the cream and brown western hognose being held awkwardly by Star]

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iam .... angery !! i ssshall ,. flatten

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Fun Fact: Hognose snakes are dramatic lil guys!

I am particularly fond of the snakes known as hognose snakes, and my reasons are both understandable and correct.

This is a hognose snake:

(They received their name by having the sweetest lil snoot to ever require a boop – image source)

They use these adorable snoots to burrow under sandy soil using a sort of nuzzle-y motion. They then use these burrows as a place to sleep at night, hibernate in the winter, and lay their eggs. 

(you could say they’re into… the Underground Scene! …ok yeah i’ll show myself out – image source)

Plus, they come in a variety of delightful colours!

We’ve got brown! Beige! Yellow! Black! Red! Orange! Tan! Kinda greenish! Orange again!

(pretty sneks! – Here’s all the image sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)

And, to be clear, the snakes pictured above are wild snakes. No selective breeding by humans in these noodly bois! At least, not in these specific individuals. probably. I guess a few of them could be escapees… 

But most importantly: These snakes know the true meaning of DRAMA

Hognose snakes are actors, first and foremost. When they feel threatened, the first thing they do is puff out their neck into a hood. 

(like cobras, this hood is made by FLEXING THEIR NECK RIBS. which: gross – image source x)

This superficially makes them look like a cobra, but what they’re actually trying to do is make themselves seem bigger, and therefore scarier. Possibly those dark spots on their neck helps with that! 

Any resemblance to real-life Eurasian cobras, real or fictional, is purely coincidental

Also, it makes its mouth do this:

(Snakes that SCREAAAAAAAM. – image source)

honestly, if I didn’t already know that hognose snakes were harmless, this would ABSOLUTELY make me leave it the hell alone 

But if all of that^ is unsuccessful at scaring away the predator, the hognose snake pulls its signature move: playing dead

If you think that is a lame signature move, then you are wrong, because hognose snakes put EVERYTHING into their performance and I love them for it.

(they’re serious, they’ll do it!  – image source)

((I’m actually going to stick the rest of this under a read-more, bc the pictures of the alive-and-physically-fine hognose snakes do kind of look like a legitimately-dead hognose snake, if you don’t know what to look for. 

So, uh: cw for a snake being too good at pretending to be dead))

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