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Missing Snakes

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suecornish

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Okay, friends. I want comments, yippee I found them or no luck in finding the rascels. Let me know how long they've been gone when they are found and what condition they are in; let me know how long you waited until giving up on them; and let me know if you renamed replacements after them.

See, Danu and Eloyanka have been missing for two months now with narry a clue as to where they can be. I am getting two new corns but don't know if I should name them Danu and Eloyanka (the seconds) or just give them brand new names. I still haven't given up hope on them but . . . . .

I just would like to hear what everyone else did when their babies went missing.

Thanks.
 
I don't usually reuse names, and if I do it's ten or more years later and a different species. Koko and Buttercup the desert torts are named after a siamese cat and a gulf coast boxie. I had a much-loved pigeon named Dilbert who disappeared as the final straw in the worst year of my life. When my daughter gave me a baby pigeon for Mother's Day a few years later, I named him Dilbird- retaining the memory but not stealing the name.

Nanci

But when I was a kid all but one squirrels were named Sam, and nearly all crows were named Joe.
 
My sister lost her kingsnake (A potosi) for three months during winter. Turned out the snake was brumating in a crack under the built in desk in the hall and it was my step-mother who found her after the three months. (I laughed evilly at that, my step-mother hates snakes, but she's become more tolerant of them since then.) She'd stopped looking, but didn't stop hoping she'd find the snake.

For us, we've lost two snakes (hatchlings both) one escaped from it's tupperware and was never seen again (been over a year now) and the other is only a possible escape as we weren't sure of the exact number of hatchlings that hatched and they all took off out of the incubation tupper at once and we were never sure we rounded them all up again.

The only other two escapes we had (a yearling corn and a very young BP) were both found within hours of the noted escape and both were in the same room as their cage and within feet of their cage.

We never use any of the names again - once we lose or sell off a named animal (for whatever reason) we simply retire the name.

Jenn
 
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