Quick!help!

[dragonkid1]

ok,so i havent held my snake for about three days,and today i was gonna feed it and i was wondering where it was (so i could put the head of the mouse facing where he would come from) and he wasnt there! so i placed the dead pinkie (which he does eat) on the floor with a heat lamp over it so it would stay warm,i thought i saw it 2 days ago,but i looked again where i thought i saw it and it wasnt there....so i went along with my normal buisness......does anybody know how i can find it? im thinking going out at night with my red night bulb from my leopard geckos cage and go around my room,when he should come out...........god i hope i find him....any one got any tips??????:confused: :mad: :(

[Zoe]

Look in warm, dark, eclosed places. He may be close to the cage, so look everywhere. Start in a corner of the room and work your way to the opposite corner... hopefully you will find him!
Another thing you can do, is take an empty coke bottle and stick a pinkie in it... when the snake is hungry, he'll go into the bottle, eat the pinkie, and probably stay there. Don't forget that a pinkie in an enclosed space in a warm area will rot FAST, so you may waste a few pinkies before one gets eaten.

Good luck!
Zoe

[dragonkid1]

thanks i will try the coke bottle.....my family doesnt hold out much hope for him,but i think if there is cover,heat that he is still in the room..........

[Zoe]

Yeah, I had a house snake escape a long time ago, and she never left the room.

Zoe

[dragonkid1]

keep the suggestions coming please

[eyespy]

I once had a female gartersnake escape and 3 months later there she was crawling across the livingroom floor like nothing ever happened.

She was in good condition, too!

[Zoe]

http://www.anapsid.org/escapedsnake.html

[dragonkid1]

ahhh! crinkily bags! yay! sounds like a good one,that and soada bottle...and eyespy,i remember that case with your garter snake,im glad everything turned out ok..........

[dragonkid1]

welll,night one of my looking is over....i fell asleep for 30 minuets,and i stayed up the rest of the night,and no sign of it......didnt even touch the pinkie in the bottle.....do you think its still in my room???

[snakemann87]

just DO NOT limit your places to look to dark, warm areas. My ball python was found under my moms dresser and when i pulled him out he was VERY cold. Look everywhere possible, no matter how hard it would be to believe he theres, they can go pretty much anywhere if they're small. Heres an example, my ball is twice as thick as the seperation of the bars.

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/1431rockystuck2.jpg

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here are some things you could try: sprinkle flour over your carpet to look for snake tracks in the morning, set up army men all over the rooms, get a box and leave food in it, give him access to his cage

[eyespy]

Look in every soft or dark place you can think of. Take your dresser drawers out and look between your clothing. Snakes can often get under the dresser and then into the drawers from underneath.

Look in between and inside the clothes hanging in the closet, inside your shoes if it's a juvenile, inside the corners of fitted sheets, inside your pillowcases, etc. Put some heat lamps in your room aimed into empty corners with a shoebox or somethine nearby for your snake to curl into. Don't put a pinkie bottle directly under the light unless you enjoy "interesting" smells but put it nearby.

Check all the electric cords in your room. Snakes seem to like climbing them like they are vines or something.

Look inside baseboards or heat vents or inside and underneath your radiator. Your snake will be drawn to anything warm. Likewise check around computers, stereos, etc. that warm up when they are on.

[dragonkid1]

thanks guys,yea my snake is still a juvi.....13 inches long...man,something that small,so many places to hide....im gona go take my room apart

[dragonkid1]

will it eat crickets? if i set them loose in my room? just for like the time when i am searching for it,just enough to hold it over?cause i have some geckos..and i got plenty of crickets and i can *accidentally* drop some.......

[dragonkid1]

eyespy-how long was your garter gone for?

[eyespy]

3 months, and she was still a good size when I found her!! Snakes can put their metabolism on a slow boil in absence of food and do pretty well with long fasts as long as their body fat has a decent reserve.

Good luck with your search and try not to worry. There's a sort of Zen to finding lost snakes. You find them quite often when you are sitting quietly and not actively seeking them.

[snakemann87]

no he wont take crickets, try a live pinkie in a box with a hole cut out of the side, with the hole higher than ground level

[Nicky]

i hope u don't have other pets:S like dogs or cats because they might attack it:( try setting out his hide box with food in it and but it in a warm spot he might reconise the sent of his hide box and go there try the attick to because corns love to climb so maybe check the upstairs part of your house just close the windows and cover the doors so he dosn't get outside becasue that would be bad goodluck update us once in ahwile if u find him bye

best of luck

[dragonkid1]

well,2 days with no sleep.....looking around my house at night,cleaning my room in the day....about the other pet thing...my sister had a rottwieler,but she moved out so thats gone.....i wont be able to get a pinike untill thursday........

[Nicky]

okay thats good yeah but by moving around trying to find him u might be scaring him even more because the vibrations you got have like a stakeout were u just sit moticonless waiting because by moving around you might just be making things worse so first sprinkle lotsa powder everywhere in your house and leave for acouple of hours when u come back find the area where the most powder has been desturbed because of your snake and then just sit near the area and wait motienless and quitly for acoupe of hours at night and see if he comes out good luck

[dragonkid1]

ok.....that was my last resort......my mom wont like it......but its better than havng a snake loosee

[ReptiZone]

you will not find that snake it will find you I lost 2 milk snakes at the zoo once and I caught the first one easly but the second one I only got it 3 days later and I was not looking for it it just pooped up to say hi and I got him. One day you will just go and get a glass of water and thetre he will be just stop looking

[Nicky]

Thats true snakes kinda have a tendancy to do that. i lost my corn at my cottage once outside when i was playing with him and then my mom called me i turned and when i looked back my snake was gone but then later that day when we went fishing i found him in the boat under my seat:confused: anyways hopefully your snake will just show up somewhere

[dragonkid1]

ok...sorry i kinda missed the point in most of them relps....i will stop looking........

[nicola_boulton]

DONT WORRY!!!!!! this has happend about 5 times 2 my corns and royal pythons. If i were u i wud just wait they always come back. Wait a few weeks or so. make sure u KEEP THE DOOR CLOSED to the room!!!!!!!! Eventualy they get hungry and start 2 wonder around in search 4 food and heat so dont leave food out cuz then it will eat and go back into hiding. best advice ever!!! trust me

[Kyle Walkinshaw]

I recently just found my 2 year old corn which was lost over 4 MONTHS ago, I looked for about 30 minutes after she went missing and then stopped looking. Like everyone has said they will just come bacl on their own. I found mine crawling inside my basement wall and when she was found outside the wall the next night she was just sitting in a wrapped up towel. So check all small spaces, warm and cool and they also do come out at around 4-5am when it is dark and QUIET so if you MUST wait till around that time. Good luck!

[Mr Maggot]

Good luck with your snake, I have a friend that lost his 4 foot retic while his mom was away, just last week, he was over at someone elses house for a while. He came back to find his moms hairless cat strangled on the apartment floor. He's still looking for a replacement cat before his mom gets home. Anyone know any hairless cat breeders in Alabama? Anyone know Dr. eVIL?Anyway, he always looses his snakes, but he finds them eventually, dead cat or not.

[dragonkid1]

thanks for the tips....and that sucks about the strangled cat....

[Nicky]

awww poor cat .... just tell him to buy a new cat and get it shaved

but where could a reticulated python hide? there so big ohh tell himt ot check the toliet i heard they go in there for some reason good luck with finding ur snake corns are smart they alwasy seem to figure out how to get out

[dragonkid1]

yea....he got out of a locked cage...its a 30 gal with a metal screen top that opens on both sides......i had locks on all sides....i dont understand how he could squeeze out of it...there is absolutaly no room.....