The western hognose snake's scientific name is Heterodon nasicus. Their habitat is the desert and grasslands. Its geographic range is from southern Canada south into northern Mexico.
Its classroom habitat is in a ten gallon tank (of course the tank isn't full of of water) which has wood chips in it. The foods that we feed him are mice. The foods that it catches for itself are small amphibians, lizards, and rodents. Bigger birds and bigger snakes can eat them.
You handle it by picking it up behind its head. Don't squeeze his/her body and support the whole body or let it wrap around your hand. The longest known one was sixty-six inches; the average length is between thirty-six inches to fifty four inches.
