are you kidding me!!!!!!!

I thought I should share with you all a crazy story involving my young blizzard corn.
Last Tuesdsay I was cleaning his cage and turned my back on him for a moment. This was his lucky day, as he has been trying to escape for weeks. Within a couple of minutes he was gone, completely dissapeared. Now I know snakes are sneaky, but wow he just vanished. The best guess I had of where he could be was under the washer or dryer only a few feet down the hall from his cage. I got a flashlight and a mirror to check underneath to see if he was there. Nope, he was gone. So I laid a trap from him using flour on cardboard in the hallway and set out his hide-a-log and water-bowl thinking at night he might just crawl back towards his homely scent. But after four days of hunting and searching I would never have guessed what he would do next. Late saturday night, as I was ready to turn out the lights and go to bed, I glanced over at the cage he escaped from and guess who? He was just sitting right on top of his cage waiting for me to open it so he could slither inside. I was shocked to say the least, I mean I knew this guy was weird but that was just insane. You dont think the fact that feeding day is Sunday had anything to do with it do you?

wow!

That is an amazing story. If your snake was older, it might just be routine, so thats why it showed up; for food. That is incredible though.

wow what luck i would guess tat feeding day is why he did that my corn will wait out side of his hide all day long till i feed him on sat.

They end up in the weirdest places...

My boyfriend and I had a snake disappear one day and we didn't even know it. I had just come home from being gone all day and proceeded to pick up around my house.
I had an orchid on my mantle that had died, and before throwing it out, I went ahead and checked the roots to make sure it was completely dead before I did so (which was really strange because I had never EVER checked roots on a plant before). You can imagine my surprise when I pulled the plant and the moss out only to find a female fluorescent curled up at the bottom of the pot! It took me a moment to even realize that it was one of our snakes because the shock of finding a snake in the pot got the better of me. That was also the first time that we had had one escape.
To this day, what lead it to the top of the mantle and into the orchid pot stumps me...I do know we got really lucky that I didn't chunk the plant without looking first

Ha great story!

I have had similar things happen, one just yesterday....

Last year I had an amel het charcoal hatchling take off for two months. He came back to the top of his cage just like yours.

A month later he escaped *Again* for one month. And again I found him sitting in front of his cage, coiled up in the open.

Two days ago my anery (from same person as the crafty amel above lol) escaped a tight fitting cage. I figured well she'll turn up. Yesterday I go into the rodent room and see a couple bottles knocked over. I leaned over, bracing my right hand up on a shelf and bam, she crawled onto my hand.

haha snakes seem to always show up or come home when least expected!

bmm

Wow, that's really cool. If my snake escapes maybe I'll just leave his cage open for him to come back home.

off topic warning:

I used to keep pet rats and I'd let them run around the apartment for a couple of hours each day. I searched and searched one of them and she was nowhere to be found. Finally I went back into my bedroom and there she was sitting in her cage. The weird thing is, the cage is on a table with nothing around it. I have NO idea how she got up there.

were they magic rats?

I had those once! :grin01:

Did anyone notice that this thread is over 2 years old?

Apparently not. Who keeps digging up these "classic" threads??? :shrugs:

:uhoh: :sidestep:

2 years and much bigger now

I have totally forgotten about this thread till I got an email that someone had posted a reply recently. I am happy to report that I still have both snakes. They grow up so quickly

--now that they're all grown up its harder to loose them!

JTGoff69 said:

Apparently not. Who keeps digging up these "classic" threads??? :shrugs:

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05-07-2003 09:36 PM - BMM

10-06-2005 02:15 PM - Slippery Ernie


My vote is with Slippery Ernie in this instance .....

Lol, nothing wrong with digging up old threads like this one, I thought it was really cute We have a pair of Cuban Knight Anoles who were in a very poor temp cage in our reptile room. They would constantly get out... after a while we would notice that the one who was missing the day before would be back in the cage and the other one would be MIA... they just kept comming back, lol.. they're in a much more secure cage now, but I kind of miss letting them have free roam time in the reptile room.. it was so cool to see them go back home on their own.. lol

Laine

I might as well post a couple of my stories about Snake escaping.

Not too long after I got him I went away for a month camping and left my step father in charge of Snake. He had said he worked in a herp store around San Fransisco at some point so I figured he knew how to take care of a snake. Well I come home and the first thing I do is check his terrerium. Yep. Not there. He had left the latch on top undone and he just crawled out. I spent a hour looking for him and I was just about to give up (the sliding door to the back yard was in my room, and it was open when I got there...) when I looked at my bed just in time to see a bright red tail go slithering under my blankets. That would NOT have been OK to have found him in the middle of the night.

Then over thanksgiving he somhow got out of his tank (still not sure how...) while my wife and I were gone. So I started looking all over for him. I eventualy found him behind the dresser in my wife's office. Simple grab and stuff, right? Wrong. He found a little hole in the bottom of the dresser that was just big enough for him to fit into and down he went. It took my almost an hour to get him out, and MAN was he pissed. He must have stuck at me 6 times.

He's been a brat lately.

I needed to read this thread today I have been feeling pretty depressed about my little guys disapearance of late. I felt that maybe I shouldn't have posted the story on the husbandry section in the first place, as I was beginning to think that the people on this board don't make dumb mistakes like me. I should know better though, so many people I know have lost a snake or two before and thankfully most seem to result in the recovery of said snake

Wish me luck

Rebecca

giants2001 said:

. You dont think the fact that feeding day is Sunday had anything to do with it do you?

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lol i think it might because my brother use to own a water snake that ALWAYS got out and he didnt know how but every tuesday he would show up on the ground in front of his cage for food but after a day or 2 he would once again leave its was kinda weird .

My house is ancient, if Lily got out (highly unlikely since she's in lockdown, aka a tub with paper clamp dealies and 4 of my Amazonian sister's old free weights on top) she would disapear into a crack and be lost forever. Of course since she is obviously capable of non-basic feelings like love and fidelity, she would immediately return to me!

Great Snake Escapes

Hey, I couldn't pass up this one. Here are a couple incidents that may be entertaining:

I repeatedly lost and found my first corn (back in college). His most memorable "hiding" place was halfway up the wall behind a picture - the tail hanging down sort of gave him away!

A few years ago my female anery disappeared for a couple months over the summer. My husband reacquired her during an early morning trip to the bathroom: she was lounging on the toilet seat!

Cheers!

Kp

Pumilio said:

My house is ancient, if Lily got out (highly unlikely since she's in lockdown, aka a tub with paper clamp dealies and 4 of my Amazonian sister's old free weights on top) she would disapear into a crack and be lost forever.

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FYI:

"Paper Clamp Dealies" = Large Binder Clips on a 15qt. Sterilite tub. Like most young people, my sister's had everything handed to her-- including the Large Binder Clips, the tub, and the female Abbott's that should have been mine. :devil01:

I'm OCD about enclosure security. Weights are the final security measure in an un-racked enclosure after near-perfect security has been achieved by other means.