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Hognose: How to switch Live to F/T?
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I have a yearling albino hognose who is currently eating live fuzzies.
Q:What techniques has anyone had success with getting a hognose to switch from live to f/t? Is toad scenting really like "catnip" for hognoses?
Also, anyone know a "humane" way to stun mice? Or is a hard blow to the head about the best way to do it?
I can probably get my hands on a toad to freeze now it is spring here. And after watcing my hognose's latest meal repeatedly kick him in the head as he finished it off I really would like to get him to take f/t.
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Assisted Answer
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4/12/2012 11:27:20 AM
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Skelegirl
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I had the same exact problem w/ my albino hog...even the apprehension with stunning. For one that small, you can grasp it firmly at the base of its tail, then flick it hard with your finger on the back of its head (think flicking a twisted up straw to make it pop...that's how hard you should flick it). Turns out that I have the "flick of death", but my little guy readily took the fresh killed fuzzy. He has since moved on to f/t.
I tried scenting with a frog (much to the dismay of my white's tree frog) with no luck. But my hog loves tuna juice, and I've heard that works quite well for many hogs. You could try that, and spare a poor toad a horrible death (freezing is not a humane way to kill a toad, or any herp).
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Member Comment
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4/12/2012 11:40:35 AM
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Doomtrooper
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one of my baby Hogs was a live only feeder when i got her .. I gave her a few days to settle in and left a f/T pink in the cage and she took it no problem and hasn't missed a meal since ..
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Accepted Answer
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4/12/2012 12:07:53 PM
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Tiki108
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My hog has recently gotten stubborn, he was eating f/t just fine, but what I do to switch any snake is first try stunned, then prekilled, then f/t, though it never hurts to try f/t first, you never know they could be like Doom's hog and just take it no questions asked.
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4/12/2012 12:37:34 PM
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FyreFocks
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A healthy hog is a hungry hog. And a hungry hog should take a f/t with no troubles. But my first suggestion is always to just let the animal not eat for a while if it turns down the f/t item. Usually, but not always (in Emily's case) they will take the f/t just to end the fast that you have forced upon them.
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Author Comment
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4/13/2012 7:56:29 PM
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tumbledgemstone
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Thank you all for your help! No luck with just offering f/t to him and I am pretty sure this particular snake could out-fast me. I am hoping the stunned/prekilled/f/t method works.
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