1st time owner worried

Originally Posted by Pugsley

Usually you leave your snake alone for a week before handling or feeding. It needs to settle in. It can take months before they begin to feel safe, but you can start the handling after the week, but you do wait for 3 days after eating.

The hide, there is a log hide that has a hidden hole in it that small snakes can get into. I hope that is not the one you have. This is a thread worth reading : http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/sho...t=hide+missing

I had this log: http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/sho...t+found+jasper

We thought we had lost our hatchling. We couldn't find him anywhere. Finally after 6 hrs of searching the house repeatedly and the tank more times than I can count, I thought to break it open. And there he was. Up in the top part where the poster from this link cut it off.

Originally Posted by Nanci

I hate that hide with a passion! I thought I was going to have heart failure when Jasper went missing...

Sounds like there's a few of us with the same horror stories. LOL! I hate that hide too. Next time I go into the pet store, I'll recommend they not let people buy it for their snakes!

Same thing happened to me a couple of hours after I bought my 3 snakes the hide is comfortable for the snake but it can scare us badly especially if u have children or other pets in the house