WitchHunt

Hello everyone. It's unfortunate that this is the circumstances that we're meeting in. I've left my snakes with a friend for a few weeks while I visit family out of state and she texted me a few days ago that one of them went rogue. She opened the enclosure to check on him, then left for maybe a minute just to get his chick and by the time he came back he was gone. Most of the tricks haven't worked simply because of his size (like the plastic bag trick) or because she has carpet (the flour trick). Granted he isn't a corn snake, but he is a North American rat snake so he's very closely related to corns. He also has one of the strongest feeding responses among any of my snakes. He once had an RI, was getting injections, was in shed, and was new to his enclosure and still didn't miss a meal (granted I shouldn't have been feeding him during that time but the vet recommended I did). I thought the best way to get him back was to lay out the 2 liter traps with prey, especially considering it was feeding day for him when he escaped, but so far there hasn't been any interest in them. Now my friend says all the windows and doors were shut and there's no holes in the walls for him to escape through, but she owns a fairly small home with cats nonetheless and there hasn't been any sign of him period. He usually defecates every day or two and she hasn't seen any sign of that either. It's been 3 days, so if anyone has any advice or personally learned tricks to get him back I'd appreciate it.