ESCAPEE or HIDE LOG HORRORS?

OkeeteeMom said:

The opening IS there...trust us. You won't be able to see or feel it. Just cut that part off and your snake can still use it.

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Well... i looked around the log and i found the spot, or at least the only spot big enough that she can get it... it's sharp-edged too... So i stuffed a tissue in there. I don't think i'll be having any issues in future

That is not a fool-proof solution!!! Just saw the end off- then you never have to worry about it again. They still love the hide after surgery.

Agreed, nip the end off and give it a little sanding and it becomes the perfect little corn fort.

BloodyBaroness said:

Agreed, nip the end off and give it a little sanding and it becomes the perfect little corn fort.

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Don't forget to add the auto targeting Gatling Laser Turrets, to fend off those pesky live mice!

even if wanted to chop off the end (which i don't, it'll look... odd... and i paid good money for it!), i don't have a saw. i was planning of getting something more permanent, like air dry clay and shoving it in there instead later on. i honestly do not believe she will be able to get into any hole if i have it blocked.

Draekaar said:

even if wanted to chop off the end (which i don't, it'll look... odd... and i paid good money for it!), i don't have a saw. i was planning of getting something more permanent, like air dry clay and shoving it in there instead later on. i honestly do not believe she will be able to get into any hole if i have it blocked.

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Well we all paid good money for it and then had the heart attack when we couldn't find our babies.

Hey Tina!!! i missed this post at the beginning but im glad u found ur little one, we sell that hide at the petstore i manage and i always warn ppl about that hole. Im glad all is well tho!!!

i got this ornament here on a discount when i worked at the pet store. LOVED IT and as soon as i got it home i put it in Milly's tank.



i was a bit hasty, and i guess i didn't inspect it very well. i thought it was solid for some silly reason. well one day, i find that my amel has decided to turn it UPSIDE DOWN and crawl inside. she had about the first 4 inches of her head & neck in. and she was really, really stuck. it took much mineral oil and a bit of gentle pulling to get her out. she had a nasty "scar" for quite awhile. it has almost 100% shed out, but i can still see it. you wouldn't be able to if you didn't know it happened, but it's there.

my other experience with evil ornaments is this one:



i had a pastel ball python get stuck FULLY INSIDE this ornament! i went in the room one day and saw her head poking out of the hole in the front, above where the mouth opens. i FREAKED!!!!!! i thought she was waaaaaaaay too big, and that there was no way she would fit in there, so why would she try and go in there?

WRONG. snakes don't know how big they are, lol.

luckily, she came out fine. i didn't even have to cut it open or anything. she wasn't completely stuck.

First Escape....

I just got home from work a couple of hours ago, and went to get my snake out for some hang out time. I looked under her favorite hide, her coconut shell, and she was not there. No big deal, I looked in her new hide I just got her yesterday, no luck, third hide...nothing...trying not to freak out, I thought "she's probably under the water bowl...nope. By this time I had all of her hides and her bowl out, so I sifted through all of her aspen. Notta. I just changed her bedding and put in a new hide last night, so I know she can't have been gone for too long, but I am also highly worried because I have a dog and a cat at my house. (I am more worried about the cat, the dog would probably be afraid of the snake.) Then I found this post, and realized that I have the SAME hide that everyone was having to saw apart to get their snake out. Sooooooo, now I am waiting on my husband to get home in half an hour to help me try to take apart this hide. I am really, really hoping she is in there! I have clamps on the cage, and I have had her for almost two months without an escape, and she is still pretty small, so I don't *think* she could push the lid up with the clamps on. I am now reconsidering the clamps in favor of a slide on lid however....anyway...this is my first post here but have been reading for a while when I was thinking about getting my snake. I am so worried about her. Will let you know what I find out....I left the hide sitting on my bed for a few mins (before I saw the post about this hide), but I don't think she would have gotten out in that amount of time if she is in the hollowed part like the other snakes were.

I found her! I went to saw at the log (that I had previously taken out and gently shook around to see if she came out), and I guess when she felt the vibrations it made her panic a little bit bc she shot out of there! YAYYYY!!!!

Glad she was just in the hide and not escaped! Every time I see someone with that log in their set-up I tell them about it.

Even earthenware flowerpots have their problems.

I once "lost" a sub-adult. Went to clean out her viv - she was nowhere. Emptied it completely, substrate and all. No snake. Couldn't figure out how she'd escaped through sliding glass doors. Searched around for a couple of hours, but of course no sign of the young lady. Left substrate out, but put all the fittings, water bowl, hides etc, back in the viv, ready in case I found her (they'd just been left on the floor next to the viv during the time that I was searching).

Two weeks later, I finally gave up on finding her again. Took all of the bits out of the viv to disinfect them and pack them away. Turned the flowerpot over and... the little Madam was curled up, *inside* the top of the flowerpot! Needless to say, she was most annoyed at being discovered and resisted attempts to remove her. One fuzzy and a good drink of water later and she was back to being her usual sunny self.

The moral is - if you think you have an escapee, check *everywhere* inside the tank first. And that means even inside the more open types of hide, where they couldn't *possibly* be hiding themselves!!

I know there haven't been posts here lately but with this thread I thought that this thread should be stickied.

I always wondered how someone could possibly have a snake escape.
But last week while doing something in my amels cage the phone rang and started talking while standing outside his viv. For some reason I got side tracked and left the front slider open. This was at 8pm. It wasn't till the next morning at 8am I noticed the door open. My heart sunk. Thoroughly checked her cage and nothing. Then I notice a big poop on the floor down on the hardwood floor in the dining room. I looked everywhere.
Then the phone rings and it's my dad. I'm standing right near his cage and out of the top box I have beside it I see him coming out. I stick out my hand and he climbs on and back in his cage he goes.
I'm glad it was him because he's so laid back and friendly, while my other guy is kinda skitish and just goes and goes.

So Glad you found her. If I ever use another zilla sliding lock lid it is getting taped. I had 2 escapee from them.

glad u found her don't know what i would do if angel our amel got out

Had my first escape today. My boy Ghost (not a ghost just his name) was missing when i went to say goodmoring. Not hiding in his substrate and not in his hide. I assume i did something wrong when i put him away last night and i had some family over so completely my fault for being irresponsible. I was pretty upset and since he's still small and young assumed he made his escape last night and was long gone by now. I went into a cleaining frenzy to occupy my mind and when i went to clear off the TOP of my fridge, there he was. Chillin on top of the fride! on top!!! I understimated this guy and the fact that he went from a tank with a screen lid to THE TOP of my fridge means he was properly named. I added two more clips to his tank so now he has a total of four. If he gets out of that then im going to ad a deadbolt.

I know this is an old thread, but the same thing happened to me....with the same cage decoration/log hide. I purchase this from my local petsmart.

http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=11147241

Even though I could not figure out how my snake would have escaped, I started setting tape traps. After two days of this nonsense, I went with my instinct...I carefully drilled a small hole at the very top of the hide. After all the noise and moving around, she came slinking out of the bottom of the hide.....In the blue.

Needless to say, this item no longer resides in her vivarium. It is near impossible to see this hole/access without turning it upside down and on an angle.

Just wanted to let anyone know this was not a unique experience with this item, but looks more like a design flaw.

-braingarble

braingarble said:

I know this is an old thread, but the same thing happened to me....with the same cage decoration/log hide. I purchase this from my local petsmart.

http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=11147241

Even though I could not figure out how my snake would have escaped, I started setting tape traps. After two days of this nonsense, I went with my instinct...I carefully drilled a small hole at the very top of the hide. After all the noise and moving around, she came slinking out of the bottom of the hide.....In the blue.

Needless to say, this item no longer resides in her vivarium. It is near impossible to see this hole/access without turning it upside down and on an angle.

Just wanted to let anyone know this was not a unique experience with this item, but looks more like a design flaw.

-braingarble

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Aw, that's too bad - it's a really cool looking hide and I was thinking of getting it just a couple days ago.

hah, I had one of these heart attack situations earlier in the week. Its actually the way I found this forum.

Somebody gave me the advice to put Snake in my pocket to get him used to me and vica versa. So I followed the advice and then got an IM from somebody. Responded, checked on snake still there. Got another IM responded looked down and my pocket was empty.

I checked under the bed, under cupboards behind the desk inside draws on shelves behind shelves inside my PC, I could not find them anywhere. My room got turned upside down (needed a cleaning anyway) and nothing. I was about to have a heart attack (My step dad was paranoid about him escaping) when I went and checked out stuff online for advice.

As I started typing I realised something, lifted my keyboard and there he was curled up beneath the keyboard, happy as a lamb. Little bugger.

I've had similar things in the past where I've opened the enclosure and he's gone, only to realise after stripping the thing clean he was coiled up tightly in the middle of a fake plant where I couldn't see him.