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Corn Escaped.....

Poshey

Poshey

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Corns are escape artists. If she is very small, it is extremely important that she stays warm, so crank up the heat!

Get yourself a cotton ball or something similar. Go make a tuna sandwich. While you're eating it, drench the cotton ball in tuna juice. If you don't have tuna juice, let your mice/hamsters/rabbits/cats/dogs/birds/goats/anoles/walruses crawl all over it. What you want is a strong food smell. Set it in a corner or something. All around it, make tape loops or better yet, double-sided tape. Put it all around. The stickier the better. Snakey has to crawl over the tape to get to the cotton ball. You don't want her to actually get at the cotton ball because she might eat it, especially if she's into F/T. That's why sticky tape is good. When you catch her, do not pull off the tape! Rub her down with a little vegetable oil to coax off the tape. Wipe her off or give her a little soak, and she's good as new.

If you can't do this, check warm, dark places or tiny spaces she might want to hide in.
 
All around it, make tape loops or better yet, double-sided tape. Put it all around. The stickier the better.
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i won't take tape that is too sticky your snake could get woonded. just use this regular paper tape. (no ductape or something like that u could hurt your snake allot with these) just look in tiny places, warm spots, holes ( i found mine in my subwoofer ones) good luck.
 
tommymamba said:
i won't take tape that is too sticky your snake could get woonded. just use this regular paper tape. (no ductape or something like that u could hurt your snake allot with these) just look in tiny places, warm spots, holes ( i found mine in my subwoofer ones) good luck.
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If you ease it off with vegetable oil, it shouldn't hurt your snake. If it's too dry, she won't stick to it. But I agree, better safe than sorry.. Especially if she fights the tape alot.
 
Have you tried making traps? a plastic container with a food item in it with a whole large enough for your snake to crawl in but not out after it eats? What about spread flour along the floor to see if your snake leaves tracks so you can see which way its going?

If you do resort to tape, I've had great success using baby oil to get the glue off (had a snake brought to me at work that got caught in an exterminators sticky trap, baby oil worked great and i only got bit three time, lol)
 
Tommiegunz, that bit about the traps got me thinking.

Do you know what a minnow trap looks like? It's kind of hard to explain. It's a cylindrical container with one end open. You put a funnel into this end, pointing inward, and the minnows swim in, but are too stupid to swim back out. If you used/made one of these, the hole would be off the ground enough that the snake wouldn't be able to get back out.

I might need to invent some sort of modified minnow trap, if it hasn't already been done! ;)
 
Similar concept except I think in most cases a snake is much smarter than a minnow and will keep exploring until they find a way out so the hole would have to be small enough that when the snake eats the mouse or rat it can't get out
 
Like the Aesop tale about the mouse in the corn crib? ;)

The mouse crawled through a crack in a corn crib, ate and ate and ate, and he was too fat to crawl back out, and the cat ate him. :eek:

That is a good idea, IMO.
 
Do a search for bottle trap. That would be very similar to the minnow trap. they tend to follow edges and can't find the hole to get out.
I'm not sure that I've seen anyone post that a trap worked, most are found hiding or they just appear somewhere one day. I think the best suggestion I've seen is to look at night.
 
Well i hope you find your baby. I've had an escape or two and I find it works so much better if you don't tear the house apart looking for them. My thinking in that matter is that you might trap them somewhere or scare them into hiding for a longer period of time. Turning up the heat might work...but I've heard of others turning down the heat in their house and then providing a few heating pads around he house near the traps or along walls. Yu can try both. Also try to turn off the lights and keep it as quiet and vibration free as possible. Doing this will help while using the methods people have already posted on this thread with the bottles and tape and such. Good luck!
 
Probably a long shot, but any chance the hide on the right (castle or ship??) is hollow and has a hole in the bottom of it??? If so, you may have a stow-away.
 
If you ease it off with vegetable oil, it shouldn't hurt your snake. If it's too dry, she won't stick to it. But I agree, better safe than sorry.. Especially if she fights the tape alot.
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yes you can do it with oil but the snake will fight it and hurt herself allot. my snake ones got stuk to the sticky part you attach the thermometer with and she also pulled a peace of her skin.
 
hey

dwyn127 said:
If you can't see inside all the nooks and crannies in the ship, don't be so sure. But like I said, it's just a long shot.
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ya i checked all the hides in the ship they is no major hides in it anyway dont worry i checked that ship LOADS of times :realhot:
 
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