-
Hello!
Either you have not registered on this site yet, or you are registered but have not logged in. In either case, you will not be able to use the full functionality of this site until you have registered, and then logged in after your registration has been approved.
Registration is FREE, so please register so you can participate instead of remaining a lurker....
Please be certain that the location field is correctly filled out when you register. All registrations that appear to be bogus will be rejected. Which means that if your location field does NOT match the actual location of your registration IP address, then your registration will be rejected.
Sorry about the strictness of this requirement, but it is necessary to block spammers and scammers at the door as much as possible.
Any stories of losing and then finding your corn?
- Thread starter spazhime
- Start date
ZoologyGirl
Under Tank Heather
I found a baby corn of mine climbing the window blinds once. I didn't know he had even escaped.
gelshark
 
here's quite a few success stories
http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130394
http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130394
AliCat37
Michelle's Candied Corns!
The first time I lost a snake, it didn't end well, with my cat finding him first.
The second time, we found the snake before we even knew she was out! My cat was looking under the couch and we thought she wanted her toys that she sticks under there, lifted up the couch and yikes! Adult corn snake.
Third time, it was a non feeder hatchling that got out of a sandwich box. I put tape down, but I didn't really look for her. I figured the cats would find her or she would show up some time. I never found her in the tap traps, though I think she had gotten in one. She showed up 6 days after escape, just chillin on the bathroom floor. She was sticky (which is why I assume she had been in a trap) and cold. At first I thought she was dead (she didn't move when I picked her up) I thought I might have stepped on her since the bathroom was dark. But then I realized she was just cold, so I put her in my new snake rack and she is actually eating now.
The second time, we found the snake before we even knew she was out! My cat was looking under the couch and we thought she wanted her toys that she sticks under there, lifted up the couch and yikes! Adult corn snake.
Third time, it was a non feeder hatchling that got out of a sandwich box. I put tape down, but I didn't really look for her. I figured the cats would find her or she would show up some time. I never found her in the tap traps, though I think she had gotten in one. She showed up 6 days after escape, just chillin on the bathroom floor. She was sticky (which is why I assume she had been in a trap) and cold. At first I thought she was dead (she didn't move when I picked her up) I thought I might have stepped on her since the bathroom was dark. But then I realized she was just cold, so I put her in my new snake rack and she is actually eating now.
gelshark
 
Thanks for all the stories, gives me a little more hope to find her <3
And I didn't know a thread already existed, sorry about that
ahh... but your story isn't complete yet, so you need your own thread.
crotalis40741
Nanci said put sexy bangs
My dumb butt left the lid off a hatch box in the incubator last year and had six get out. I turned the snake building upside down several times and no snakes found. I even took everything out of the incubator and nothing. About three days later I found the first on back in the incubator and then about a day a part I found the rest crawling around and trying to get out of the building.
Christen
New member
I never did get around to adding my stories to Lars thread. So here are mine.
1) First snakey lost story was before I have any of MY own snakes. It was my husbands snake which of course I was attached to. He was the best escape artist EVER. However once did he go missing and we spent the whole day ripping the house apart and once we gave up my husband had to go to the bathroom. Well for some reason he used the master bathroom which he almost never does. Opened the toilet and there was his snake. The only thing we can think of is one of the cats grabbed him and hopped up on the toilet and dropped him and he darted under the lid to get away.
2) I stuck and couple snakes into the breeding tub. The boy got to business rather quickly so I put the lid on but didn't put binder clips on it or anything to really double secure it. Well he got done quicker than I thought he would so when I want to check I only had one snake in the tub, the female. I started looking but noticed the cat looking at me and down the hallway so I went to investigate what she was looking at and sure enough there was my boy going under the door the the furnace closet.
3) I had just gotten done feeding snakes and was putting everyone away when I noticed the snake I put away last I didn't put the lid on correctly. I tore apart the tank to make sure she was in there and I couldn't find her. I asked my husband to just to make sure I didn't over look anything. He didn't find her. So again here we go ripping apart a house when about a few hours go by I look in the tank by this time I am crying because it was completely my fault she was gone and guess what? She was in the tank the whole time. No idea how two of us missed her but we did. Luckily we were smart enough to keep putting the lid on just in case.
4) Last one and the best one yet. My little milk snake went missing. I figure the cats had knocked one of the locks off his tank because no one other than me had been in there and he was in shed the last time I saw him so no one was pulling him out but it was feeding day and I knew he should have shed by this time so it must be under the bedding. Nope it sure wasn't and neither was the snake. We searched the house knowing it had been at least a week since anyone knew he was in the tank. We put bottle traps around the house including in the vents because our returns are under the house (old house). We put tape traps all the way through the house. Not one inch of this house wasn't booby trapped. A few weeks go by and no sign of him. Not one mouse eaten, not one shed, nothing. So we start slowly giving up and pulling traps up and stop baiting bottle traps. This was about a month or so of trying. We completely gave up. Months go by and to be honest at this time I don't remember exactly how long but it was about 3 to 5 months. My husband has to do some plumbing work in my bathroom so the cover is off but he had taped a plastic bag to the wall so that we could still use the shower. My husband is taking a shower and he notices that the bag moves. Thinking that is odd he removes the bag and low and behold the snake is IN the wall. He pulls him out and screams for me and I run in the bathroom and there is my husband standing there naked with a snake. (Dirty minds don't read into that) He hadn't lost every much weight at all. So I set him up in a different tank and treated him like a brand new snake and he has been perfect every since.
1) First snakey lost story was before I have any of MY own snakes. It was my husbands snake which of course I was attached to. He was the best escape artist EVER. However once did he go missing and we spent the whole day ripping the house apart and once we gave up my husband had to go to the bathroom. Well for some reason he used the master bathroom which he almost never does. Opened the toilet and there was his snake. The only thing we can think of is one of the cats grabbed him and hopped up on the toilet and dropped him and he darted under the lid to get away.
2) I stuck and couple snakes into the breeding tub. The boy got to business rather quickly so I put the lid on but didn't put binder clips on it or anything to really double secure it. Well he got done quicker than I thought he would so when I want to check I only had one snake in the tub, the female. I started looking but noticed the cat looking at me and down the hallway so I went to investigate what she was looking at and sure enough there was my boy going under the door the the furnace closet.
3) I had just gotten done feeding snakes and was putting everyone away when I noticed the snake I put away last I didn't put the lid on correctly. I tore apart the tank to make sure she was in there and I couldn't find her. I asked my husband to just to make sure I didn't over look anything. He didn't find her. So again here we go ripping apart a house when about a few hours go by I look in the tank by this time I am crying because it was completely my fault she was gone and guess what? She was in the tank the whole time. No idea how two of us missed her but we did. Luckily we were smart enough to keep putting the lid on just in case.
4) Last one and the best one yet. My little milk snake went missing. I figure the cats had knocked one of the locks off his tank because no one other than me had been in there and he was in shed the last time I saw him so no one was pulling him out but it was feeding day and I knew he should have shed by this time so it must be under the bedding. Nope it sure wasn't and neither was the snake. We searched the house knowing it had been at least a week since anyone knew he was in the tank. We put bottle traps around the house including in the vents because our returns are under the house (old house). We put tape traps all the way through the house. Not one inch of this house wasn't booby trapped. A few weeks go by and no sign of him. Not one mouse eaten, not one shed, nothing. So we start slowly giving up and pulling traps up and stop baiting bottle traps. This was about a month or so of trying. We completely gave up. Months go by and to be honest at this time I don't remember exactly how long but it was about 3 to 5 months. My husband has to do some plumbing work in my bathroom so the cover is off but he had taped a plastic bag to the wall so that we could still use the shower. My husband is taking a shower and he notices that the bag moves. Thinking that is odd he removes the bag and low and behold the snake is IN the wall. He pulls him out and screams for me and I run in the bathroom and there is my husband standing there naked with a snake. (Dirty minds don't read into that) He hadn't lost every much weight at all. So I set him up in a different tank and treated him like a brand new snake and he has been perfect every since.
Tavia
Elemental Exotics
To add to mine,
Number 4 is the longest gone recovered snake, at 78 days missing. That was a young Rosy boa that I'd sort of given up on and wasn't really actively looking for. I figured she'd show up eventually whenever. She was caught in a tape trap in the reptile room, where I got to learn that there are differences in painters tape and to only use the BLUE stuff! But eventually that all got off and after two sheds, she is pretty much back to normal.
Number 5 was thankfully short. My Honey corn Fiona got out after eating this Monday before last because I managed to not secure her feeding bin. Tore the room apart about four or five times with no success. Littered the reptile room and parts of the other rooms in the house with painters tape and some water bowls. Saw plenty of signs, several poops and she got caught in one of the tape traps but was able to get herself off, so that night, Friday, I waited until it got dark and then kept checking the reptile room to see if I could surprise her out and about and finally got luckily around 11:00 at night, she had just entered an unoccupied gecko cage that was open and waiting to be cleaned, it was on the third shelf of one of the big racks in the room.
Was very happy to find her so soon for more than one reason, my snake phobic MIL is coming to stay for a few days this weekend. My husband had been planning on keeping mum about our escapee but I figured that it would be par for the course for her to be the one to find her!
Number 4 is the longest gone recovered snake, at 78 days missing. That was a young Rosy boa that I'd sort of given up on and wasn't really actively looking for. I figured she'd show up eventually whenever. She was caught in a tape trap in the reptile room, where I got to learn that there are differences in painters tape and to only use the BLUE stuff! But eventually that all got off and after two sheds, she is pretty much back to normal.
Number 5 was thankfully short. My Honey corn Fiona got out after eating this Monday before last because I managed to not secure her feeding bin. Tore the room apart about four or five times with no success. Littered the reptile room and parts of the other rooms in the house with painters tape and some water bowls. Saw plenty of signs, several poops and she got caught in one of the tape traps but was able to get herself off, so that night, Friday, I waited until it got dark and then kept checking the reptile room to see if I could surprise her out and about and finally got luckily around 11:00 at night, she had just entered an unoccupied gecko cage that was open and waiting to be cleaned, it was on the third shelf of one of the big racks in the room.
Was very happy to find her so soon for more than one reason, my snake phobic MIL is coming to stay for a few days this weekend. My husband had been planning on keeping mum about our escapee but I figured that it would be par for the course for her to be the one to find her!
Kt Kat
New member
My 2 month old girl actually escaped on Sunday night after I blanked out that afternoon and left her screen top a tiny bit open. Two hours later I noticed she wasn't going on her nightly cruise around the viv so I checked on her, only to note the gap in the lid and confirm that she had indeed flown the coop. Panic time!
I keep her in my office which is pretty closed off so I systematically began searching and removing furniture from the room that night. Eventually I got to the closet and found fresh snake poop in a box of wrapping paper, alas she was not in the box, but at least I knew I was on the trail! Found her on the floor behind a tall stack of other boxes shortly after that. Boy, was she upset, I lost count of how many times she struck me when returning her to her home!
The viv has a sliding top with loops for a padlock, I stuck a nail in there for now and I will never leave the tank unattended anymore until the nail is in place! Still, I get very paranoid whenever I don't see her in the evenings. D:
I keep her in my office which is pretty closed off so I systematically began searching and removing furniture from the room that night. Eventually I got to the closet and found fresh snake poop in a box of wrapping paper, alas she was not in the box, but at least I knew I was on the trail! Found her on the floor behind a tall stack of other boxes shortly after that. Boy, was she upset, I lost count of how many times she struck me when returning her to her home!
The viv has a sliding top with loops for a padlock, I stuck a nail in there for now and I will never leave the tank unattended anymore until the nail is in place! Still, I get very paranoid whenever I don't see her in the evenings. D: