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My snake has ESCAPED

Droptines

Droptines

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This is what I get for running my mouth,,and being careless.I was getting ready to feed him last night,when he took advantage of a not so tight fitting lid.I always put him in his feeding container while his food is warming up.About :10 min. is the norm.Gives him time to settle down.I go back up stairs to feed him and NO SNAKE.
His viv is at the top of the stairs,on a small landing.To the left and the right are my kids rooms,,both have ALOT of stuff in them.My daughters room,,loads of stuffed animals,,closet full of stuff,,under her bed,,stufffffffff.My sons room almost as bad.I am pretty sure he is in one of them.I looked for an hour in my daughters room,but no luck yet.I got up 3 differant times and looked around with a flash light to see if I could catch him crawling around,,nothing,,but I think he could have been too scared to move last night.He's so small,,he could be anywhere !!!!!,,,I'm SSSOOO PPPIIISSSEEDD at my self :cry: ,what a stupid mistake,,I just hope it doesn't cost me....If so,,my days as a snake keeper are OVER :(
 
Good luck, I have had that gut-wrenching experience twice when Lil was a hatchling, and once with my mean ratsnake. I found Lil squished into incredibly small places, the tiny gap between the skiting board and the carpet. The ratsnake was under my bed inside a folded up insulated picnic bag.
 
Hi i know the feeling ... i've lost mine on 3 seperate occassions, the first time i was beside myself, thats it i thought he's gone :cry: and i searched high and low ... tore my house apart looking but he just turned up one morning ... around the time he was due to feed ... sat on my keyboard. the other couple of times hes got out i didnt worry so much ... he usally finds me when he's hungry. hope yours turns up soon.

ive heard that you can put a mouse in a plastic bottle (2 liter pop bottle) and your snake will wander in, feed & not be able to get out again ... it didnt work for me but i could be worth a try?
 
Since he was getting ready for a feeding when he decided to take a field trip, maybe you could try the bottle trick and place the bottle somewhere in between both your kids' bedroom doors and try putting flour underneath each door to see if he leaves a trail. Aluminium foil also works as an audible alarm (laying it around, maybe certain spots around your house where you think he could be :shrugs: ).
Good luck, I'm hoping he will be hungry enough to start looking for food rather than staying stationary for very long! Keep us posted.
 
Ravendark said:
ive heard that you can put a mouse in a plastic bottle (2 liter pop bottle) and your snake will wander in, feed & not be able to get out again ... it didnt work for me but i could be worth a try?
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Just to be clear, you have to cut the top off and invert it. This makes a sort of funnel that the snake crawls into, but can't find it's way out. Sort of like those minnow traps we used to use.
 
he is way too small for the bottle trap.I keep sneaking in the rooms with a flash light to see if I can catch him roaming around in the dark,but so far no luck.
This weekend I plan on going through their rooms with a fine tooth comb.Also, I will try to eliminate potential "hides".
 
Of my two, Lady G was the only one that ever escaped. Every time I found her curled up in a shoe in the closet of "her" room :)
 
I've had 3 hatchlings escape and found two of them last fall. The first one I found behind some wood that was leaning against the wall. The second one I set out a trap for it. My trap was the hide from his cage sitting on a heat blanket (our house is cold in the fall) then I put some water and a caged mouse beside the blanket. It took about 10 days but he showed up in the hide one morning. The trap didn't work for the other guy but it's also possible that he escaped my part of the house and was gobbled up by the landlords cat. If he gets hungry he will go on the hunt and mouse scent it a good way to attract him.
 
It sounds like a lot of people have been successful at recovering escapees.I'm not going to give up hope.
 
I recovered mine after 2 days. He had crawled across the hall into the guest room. Unfortunately, my house has floor vents so I was worried that he had gone down in there and couldn't get back out. I took those little containers for the packs of crystal light, cut a small triangle in the lid and put a pinky inside. We found the empty can and searched around the room. He was in the closet under a suitcase digesting. He ate a second pinky in his house. What a pig! Hopefully that will be my first and last escapee! The containers were closed so now I have tape and two books to make sure he can't get out!
Ravendark: You need to figure out why you keep losing your snake!
 
I've had Spur escape 3 times, the first two times he got out through a hole I didn't know was there in his cage, then the last time my g/f looked away while she was giving him a bath and he dissappeared in an instant, each time we've found him by eatching carefully and having luck on our side. Though, having plastic bags littered around the house helped greatly when he would run into one we could hear him moving and found him quickly.
 
I thought my Okeetee had escaped a few months ago. We searched high and low, set out bottle traps, put flour down at doorways all with no luck. After 2 weeks and no trace of him we were starting to give up hope because of the floor vents, 2 cats and 3 dogs. One evening there was a fresh shed in his his viv and there he was ready to eat...a lot. Turns out he was hiding in a small section of an artificial log/branch in his viv. The branch looked solid at one end and there was a small hole we couldn't see. Fortunately, we kept water in his viv and kept the lid on it.

Keep looking and hoping, I hope yours turns up.
 
I had my new girl escape twice and I used the same trap on her and it works. I'll try to explain it as best as I can.

I put the weak kind of ducktape on the sides of my rooms and some in the middle of the rooms, and by the doors, having the sticky side facing up. I usually curve the ends of the tape so that I can at least tape down the ducktape. And I just wait. Every few minutes I'd check to see if she got cowled up in one.

They slide over the ducktape and get stuck in it and get themselves tangled so they can't move.

Hope it helps, works well with small snakes, maybe put some pinkies near the tape.
 
You might want to add that vegetable oil easily removes snakes from tape or other sticky stuff without any danger.
 
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