From here it looks like a hog nose, but I'm waiting for Dysphoric to comment.
Thank you, Luca! I looked it up and in the black melanistic phase it does look close. I'm not sure if that's it or not Looking forward to hear what Dysphoric has to say as he and his son seem to be the resident herpetologists
I believe you are right. Would love to see more pics. It is about impossible to find a Hognose in east TN anymore. See if you can find him again. He should have shed by now. They are rear fanged and do have some venom but only aware of one envenomation by a herpetologist who rubbed a frog on his skin to stimulate the bite.
Honest admission-
I'm not "afraid" of snakes though I'm not going to cuddle them either. However, this thread is going to give me nightmares. DJ- how does your kid hold all those snakes so calmly?!?
Yea DJ Jr. is definitely a little bad ass. I witnessed him kicking the ass of two Busse dudes at blade, and they both had knives.
Because his kid is a flat-out badass. Both my boys have voted.
That hognose is an ugly evil looking bastid.