I see this hide being sold in a lot of pet stores and want to tell you a cautionary tale about it.
Yesterday, our yellow rat snake got herself stuck in the nose hole, mostly because of the little nub you see there. She nosed her way in there because the hole presents as deceptively larger than it is and wound up hurting herself on that little nub trying to work herself free.
We managed to get her out with a considerable amount of Vaseline, but there was some bruising and we were concerned there might be internal bleeding, After a 2 hour round trip to the nearest snake vet, Garza checked out fine, just a bit of scale damage. We were lucky. tl;dr - this hide is dangerous for any snake unless it’s super tiny. Don’t keep it in your baby’s tank once they’ve outgrown it. Even better, don’t buy it if they’re eventually going to outgrow it.


















