"Oh. There you are."

I had the worst freakout with Scarlet today. I peered into her cage and couldn't see her, so I figured she was hiding in her cavey thing on the warm side of the viv since I fed her yesterday evening. An hour later, I looked in, saw she wasn't in her cave, her "cool side" hide, or burrowed somewhere in her substrate.

I flipped out.

I took everything out of the viv, combed thoroughly through the substrate, then proceeded to look around the viv, under the TV, or by the XBox. It was at that point I started panicking. I kept thinking to myself, "did my boyfriend leave the lid open? OMG DID THE DOG EAT HER???" I decided to give up the search after 2 hours of turning over everything in the apartment and I put her hides back in the viv, hoping that she'd show up. I stopped when I saw a little pink tail flicker underneath her hide... she had stuck herself way up in the uppermost crevice of her hide!!

"Oh. There you are."



Cracking open a beer now after all that mess.

LOL. Yeah... this happens a LOT when they're tiny! Glad she didn't get out!!!

hehehe sneaky little thing!

Originally Posted by The_Thunderer

LOL. Yeah... this happens a LOT when they're tiny! Glad she didn't get out!!!

Oi. Me too. After that, she poo'd on my boyfriend while he handled her. It's been a funny day.

thats one thing im glad i dont have to wory about because i made a homeade lid that he wont be able to lift until hes about 3yrs old cause it weighs like 5-7lbs but i have a mechanism that will hold it. i know it will hold cause my dad made the same lid but bigger for his boa years ago.

Gosh this happened to us too, but Salvador hid in the bit under the sliding glass doors- apparantely notorious for babies to hide in but the pet shop told us it'd be a perfect tank for her. Glad you found her!

Awww, I did this when I brought my littlest snake home in August - LOL. My heart was racing and everything.

Luckily, she's become pretty good about using her hides instead now.