ok i checked everything in my room and i didnt c him, he is a new babie hatching, i am turing the AC on to 60 tonight and i have a heat light out so im hopeing to c him there tomarow. if i dont c him where what eles should i do. i jsut got him so i have no frozen food and he is not ready for a feeding till thursday. sugesions are needed HELP
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escaped.... what do i do???
- Thread starter beardie
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pinatamonkey
Ophidiophile
I'm not a big fan of the 'let's wait for the snake to find me' approach. Nearly every time I've had an escape I have found them relatively quickly by searching the room.
Snakes seem to follow a general pattern when they get loose. Once they find a wall, they will generally continue along the wall, and not cross the floor. Once they find a nice spot they tend to stay there for a while. I have never found one more than 2 feet away from the room they escaped in. Look under furniture, in dark boxes and shoes. Hopefully you can find him soon.
You have to find out how he escaped in the first place, 'cause they are likely to do it again if the escape route is still there.
Snakes seem to follow a general pattern when they get loose. Once they find a wall, they will generally continue along the wall, and not cross the floor. Once they find a nice spot they tend to stay there for a while. I have never found one more than 2 feet away from the room they escaped in. Look under furniture, in dark boxes and shoes. Hopefully you can find him soon.
You have to find out how he escaped in the first place, 'cause they are likely to do it again if the escape route is still there.
Ice9
New member
What i used to do with my garter snakes when they escaped was to put a light dusting of flour around the edges of the room (as pinatamonkey says , they tend to follow the walls) so you can see the trails and hopefully see where they stop. Worked for me.
Make sure youre extra careful when you move furniture though as they can get in the smallest spaces and it would be all too easy to squash him
Fortunately Ive not had a corn escape yet
Good luck and hope you find him.
Make sure youre extra careful when you move furniture though as they can get in the smallest spaces and it would be all too easy to squash him
Fortunately Ive not had a corn escape yet
Good luck and hope you find him.
I have had two snakes get loose in my house. One was a cal king hatchling who has been missing since 02. So far the only signs of her was a shed skin under our house in our crawl space. My other corn that got out was a 2 year charcoal het pewter . I looked everywhere in the house and tried everything. One of my friends told me to lay down some of the glue traps for mice. If you snake get stuck on this...it only takes some baby oil to remove the snake without harm to any scales. I have laid these under the house and they have been there for a week or so. So far I haven't had any luck...but there is still hope.
. I looked everywhere in the house and tried everything. One of my friends told me to lay down some of the glue traps for mice. If you snake get stuck on this...it only takes some baby oil to remove the snake without harm to any scales. I have laid these under the house and they have been there for a week or so. So far I haven't had any luck...but there is still hope.
EtherRex
Otter-Like
I strongly recommend that you dont use glue traps intended for mice! I would have thought that due to the shape of the snakes head and location of the nostrils it will most likely suffocate.
Animals in glue traps thrash around trying to escape and often try to use their head to do so once all legs are stuck. I have found many mice that suffocated in this way. If you want your snake back alive I really wouldnt risk it.
Animals in glue traps thrash around trying to escape and often try to use their head to do so once all legs are stuck. I have found many mice that suffocated in this way. If you want your snake back alive I really wouldnt risk it.
Taceas
USW = UB313
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So far I've lost 3 corns, an adult female motley I found 8 months later outside (go figure), a yearling blizzard, and a 03 pewter
The flour trick, the tape trick, the bottle trick, plastic grocery bags, smelly mice litter, etc are all good re-capturing tactics.
As I read in your other post, you had it in a Kritter Keeper. Did you have the clear window snapped down tight, or just closed without latched? Those things are tight sealing, and even the smallest hatchling couldn't have gotten out unless the lid wasn't snapped on properly. Did you have one of those lights made to fit Kritter Keepers perhaps? I don't know how tightly they fit, if there are gaps around the housing or not.
Secondly, did you look all through the stuff in the critter keeper? He may have taken refuge under the substrate or decorative items.
Look around low lying areas, bookshelves, under couches, in shoes, in closets. Don't give up yet.
Here are pictures of sample traps posted by Don Soderberg:
Trap Pictures
You need to scroll down to Miscellaneous pictures, then to traps.
So far I've lost 3 corns, an adult female motley I found 8 months later outside (go figure), a yearling blizzard, and a 03 pewter
The flour trick, the tape trick, the bottle trick, plastic grocery bags, smelly mice litter, etc are all good re-capturing tactics.
As I read in your other post, you had it in a Kritter Keeper. Did you have the clear window snapped down tight, or just closed without latched? Those things are tight sealing, and even the smallest hatchling couldn't have gotten out unless the lid wasn't snapped on properly. Did you have one of those lights made to fit Kritter Keepers perhaps? I don't know how tightly they fit, if there are gaps around the housing or not.
Secondly, did you look all through the stuff in the critter keeper? He may have taken refuge under the substrate or decorative items.
Look around low lying areas, bookshelves, under couches, in shoes, in closets. Don't give up yet.
Here are pictures of sample traps posted by Don Soderberg:
Trap Pictures
You need to scroll down to Miscellaneous pictures, then to traps.
h0mersimps0n
New member
one word:
"basement"
check it now, check it often. I've scored 2 for 3 MIA's in my basement and were escaped from 2nd floor room. Check dark, dry, warm places (DRYER/WASHER)...
Good luck.
"basement"
check it now, check it often. I've scored 2 for 3 MIA's in my basement and were escaped from 2nd floor room. Check dark, dry, warm places (DRYER/WASHER)...
Good luck.
Can this trick be use for bigger snakes? Like say a 2 year old? Where else in my house should I look? I have looked in the garage, under the house, and under the kitchen where are ac and heater is. Are there any other good places? I live in Missouri and it is about 32 F. Would they have gone outside or would they find a warm place to hibernate?
i found him no he wasnt in the basemtnt i live in CA we dont have basements here. he left my room and left the living room and climed up the door jam to the frount door and sat on top of it i found him on my way out for work this moring. any way i went out and bought a 20L with a good screen top so he cant get out now.
bluetattoo
New member
Great news beardie.....Glad u found your little skp.
Am getting a new littl'un myself on Saturday, and think I've got all the escape routes covered in his new home, but sometimes I think they must smuggle in their own files, spades, vaulting horses and motorbikes, and have spent their time in the egg watching re-runs of the Great Escape!
Blue.
Am getting a new littl'un myself on Saturday, and think I've got all the escape routes covered in his new home, but sometimes I think they must smuggle in their own files, spades, vaulting horses and motorbikes, and have spent their time in the egg watching re-runs of the Great Escape!
Blue.
CornCrazy
What's one more???
Be careful with screen lids as well. Little snakes are good escape artists and can get out through tiny spaces. The little clips that can be bought to secure the screen tops don't always work well. If you have the kind of tank with the sliding screen top, be aware that 1) If they push just right, they can lift the lid just enough to squeeze through at the front, and 2) they like to lay along the ledge between the "lip" on the cage and the screen lid. Check there before opening the lid. I had one that fell to the floor because she was up there and I didn't know it. Luckily, I saw her fall so she didn't escape.
Oh yeah - Congratulations on finding him!
Oh yeah - Congratulations on finding him!