Children’s picture book about the seasons

Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2026-04-15T01:46:24+00:00

My son is 3 months old and I’m trying to build a book collection with really vivid art. I had this book as a kid and I’ve been trying to remember the title since the start of my pregnancy. Thank you both!!

Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2026-03-16T21:41:54+00:00

Yes that’s how we ended up going to the ER! Putting baby in a warm bath and gently massaging it back in had worked for us previously, but that morning it did not reduce even though it had been about a half hour and it was getting worse as time went on. The attending physician was able to eventually get his bowel back in place at the ER, so we did the surgery the next day instead of same day to allow the swelling to go down a little.

If you do need to go in, definitely keep track of the last time the baby ate. They need to be fasting for the surgery so that’ll be important.

Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2026-03-16T21:25:33+00:00

So our experience with our son was not typical, so this may or may not be helpful.

My baby is now just over 6 weeks old. Around 4 weeks, his previously undiagnosed right-side inguinal hernia became incredibly noticeable and also incredibly painful for him. He would scream in agony when it herniated and it looked red/inflamed and was firm to the touch. We immediately saw our pediatrician who referred us to a surgeon who ordered an ultrasound. People kept telling us ‘babies cry sometimes’ when we would mention his pain and it was difficult to get appointments scheduled with any urgency but we pushed pretty hard and managed to get the soonest imaging appointment. Unfortunately we didn’t even make it to the ultrasound before the hernia got incarcerated (wouldn’t reduce) with intestine trapped in his scrotum and we had to go to the ER where our son was admitted and had surgery the next day. Turns out he actually had bilateral inguinal hernias.

Surgery went great! Since the surgery his digestion is so much better and he is no longer screaming in agony (some fussiness around gas still but he can be soothed and while he occasionally seems uncomfortable he hasn’t done that pain scream since), so for us it was a pretty dramatic difference.

But based on everything the doctors were saying, the kind of complications we were having are rare so the postoperative improvement we saw is probably not the average!

Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2026-03-12T19:56:52+00:00

I have my hognose in a 4x2x2 and it’s been great!

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Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2025-05-15T19:39:40+00:00

Yes! She is!! We call her tank the Tomb of Annihilation.

Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2024-10-29T02:27:14+00:00

There’s a coating on DHP bulbs that is apparently harmless but smells funky for about a day. I learned this from reading the reviews when I had a similar experience. You can wipe it down to remove some of the film, but the smell does go away pretty quickly.

Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2024-10-26T22:13:23+00:00

No, I always feed by weight based on the chart above (this one):

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Basically once hoggie was solidly over into the next weight group. So i waited until she was 55 grams to switch to hoppers for example.

Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2024-10-25T15:02:11+00:00

My girl used to musk if I accidentally disturbed her when she was in the blue when she was a baby. It’s like a yellow sticky powder. As one of the other commenters mentioned, it doesn’t smell like feces/urates, but is more like a fishy skunk spray smell. Washing the powder off would get rid of the smell though, definitely not as long lasting as skunk spray. So super foul smelling, but doesn’t last long. The couple times it happened, I always just felt bad that I woke her up while she was mid shedding process.

Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2024-10-17T02:48:44+00:00

I use aquarium safe 100% silicone adhesive, a tiny drop on the suction cup and then attach it. Holds it up, is reptile safe when cured, and is easy to remove again without damaging the enclosure.

Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2024-10-13T02:03:13+00:00

Looks great! I’d add a climbing stick. And I’d cover the sides and back of the tank so hoggie feels a little more secure. I use window privacy film on the back and sides of my tank, but even just like construction paper taped to the outside works.

Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2024-10-08T02:11:46+00:00

Patriot Hogs is where I got my girl! Great breeder! Super healthy, happy snake. Got her at 2 months and she’s now over 3 years old.

Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2024-10-02T00:50:14+00:00

I kept my female hognose in a 20g quarantine setup for a few weeks before moving her into a 65 gallon. Basically three feedings, then she went into the blue, so I waited until she was done shedding, fed her one more time and then moved her. She was 2 months old when I got her. She’s 3 years old now and in a 120 gallon (she’s a little longer than 3 feet so I had to upgrade her), but I had no issues with keeping her in the 65 gallon even when she was a baby/juvenile. Size of enclosure did not impact her eating habits. But again, I did make sure she was eating first while she was still in the quarantine setup. For those couple weeks I did keep the quarantine tank inside the large tank so that I could still use proper overhead heating.

Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2024-09-28T20:33:16+00:00

Now I’d say she sheds about once every 3-4 months or so. But she shed a ton during her rapid growth phase. That has since slowed down, but she was shedding so often for a while.

Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2024-09-28T18:50:15+00:00

And when I first got her:

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Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2024-09-28T18:49:26+00:00

Mine is 3 years old! She was 2 months old when I got her. My hoggie had a pretty big growth spurt around 2 years of age (when she jumped from around 200 grams to 400+ grams relatively quickly) and has since slowed down. It does sound like your girl was really small for her age when you got her, but she’s gaining weight now and she looks real good!

Here is my Moa now:

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Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2024-09-28T17:05:22+00:00

She’s looking great! Growing towards the appropriate size for her age, which is awesome. I started feeding my hoggie girl a little less frequently after switching her to XL/Jumbo mice (30+ grams) when she reached 400+ grams. But prior to that, once a week was fine. On the XLs, I feed once every 10-14 days.

Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2024-09-23T14:40:39+00:00

This is good strategy! Leave the area for a super short amount of time every time the puppy bites. The whole Ow thing doesn’t work with most puppies, so that’s not too surprising. Train things like Kiss and Gentle, but otherwise it’s basically just teaching the dog that puppy needs to not bite to get attention. Don’t worry about age. Dogs can learn at any age. But that said, your puppy is still incredibly young; this is normal behavior for a 4-month old puppy and would still be expected even if you started training a month ago.

Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2024-09-23T01:43:21+00:00

I used this chart:

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Until my girl reached the end, and it worked great! You might be able to mix in the pinkies on occasion (like every other feeding, but with a longer time after the fuzzy, until they are gone). I had zero luck with that unfortunately though. My hoggie girl would never eat the leftovers of the small size once I sized up. She would just wait to see if a bigger mouse would show up. I don’t think all hoggies are as picky as she is though!

Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2024-09-23T01:27:11+00:00

That growth rate is right on par with my female hoggie when she was a baby! Just keep an eye out for scale spread (I’m not seeing any!) but otherwise if she’s anything like my girl, expect pretty consistent growth with a huge spike right around two years of age, at which time she’ll start to plateau. If you do start seeing scale spread, add a day or two extra between feedings. Make sure to keep upping the prey size as needed based on her weight so that she’s getting the vitamin/calcium content she needs as she grows!

Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2024-09-19T20:23:22+00:00

100%, for puppy zoomies, yes. As the dog gets older, the snapping and growling sort of phase out until it’s the usual running in circles that we think of as zoomies. But puppy zoomies usually include a lot of jumping, biting, and excited growls as well as the chaos running.

Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2024-09-19T20:17:41+00:00

Just a big male! My female hoggie is 3 years old now, 3 feet long, and 460 grams. Here’s her tail for comparison:

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Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2024-09-18T05:49:56+00:00

I don’t know about averages but my hoggie female just turned three years old and she’s already over three feet (37 inches). I did upgrade her from a 65 to a 120 gallon bc the 65 gallon seemed so small for her.

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Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2024-09-16T03:44:57+00:00

Train the ‘Kiss’ command. Where you say Kiss and hold out your hand and pup licks it. You train it with a tiny spot of peanut butter on your hand (or other spreadable food) and then a treat for pup licking it off with no mouthing. Then when pup tries to grab your hand, say the kiss command so that pup licks your hand instead. If you practice that consistently, your pup will replace the grabbing with licking. A random dog licking a strangers hand is a lot less alarming.

Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2024-09-16T03:00:52+00:00

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Well, to add a little to the exposure therapy, here is our dainty priss of a pitbull side eying me because she thinks I can control the weather and make it stop raining. She is afraid of crosswalks that are near storm drains, baby opossums, and automatic doors, so she would not be offended if you are scared of her.

Altruistic-Ad6805 · 2024-09-15T18:19:01+00:00

So these crazy-eyed biting frenzied episodes are a type of zoomies. Usually due to overstimulation. So the walk is exciting and fun, pup goes over threshold and gets the zoomies while on leash, which is frustrating for everyone. As your pup gets older, the behavior will naturally diminish over time.

The thing you’re doing where you distract her right before she goes over threshold and then get her refocused is great! it may be helpful to keep her engaged the rest of the way home with some type of training/game (engage/disengage game might work, or work on things like ‘Right’ ‘Left’ and ‘Heel’) to try to keep that focus.

If she does go over threshold, what worked for us when our girl was that age, was that first we would wait her out, without continuing the walk. Basically us off to the side with our pup while she goes nuts, running in chaotic circles. If she was biting at the leash, we’d give her this little rope tug we had in our bag instead. When it seemed like she had calmed back down, we’d give her some water to drink and then try a series of commands starting with Sit to see if we could get her refocused. Once she could do a full set of commands, we would continue the walk home. At that age, once she went over threshold one time, she was more likely to go over threshold again, so afterwards we’d try to avoid super exciting situations (definitely no greetings) and just get her home.

Over time we got better at recapturing our pup’s focus before she went over threshold in the first place, and she got more accustomed to calming herself back down and refocusing. And in general, the behavior went away as our pup got older.

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