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Feeding the Hognose Snake
OK, here is where the differences between the westerns, easterns, and southerns come to play. Western hognsoes can be "trained" (for lack of a better term) to eat rodent exclusively. Some babies may be hard to get onto pinkie mice, but scenting the pinkie by rubbing it against a toad is the best way. Most baby westerns are trained this way. Westerns seem to be the only North American hognoses that can be fed a diet of strictly rodent without ill effects.
Easterns and southerns must be fed toads. You can suppliment their diet with some rodents, but they cannot be fed exclusively rodents. It will kill them. An eastern fed only rodents will start having kidney failure which will result in the death of the snake.