This Sucks Big Time!!

[ranmasatome]

OMG!!!
i woke up today only to find the horror that my snake got loose!!! ITS GONE FROM ITS ENCLOSURE!!!!!!!! i am really sad!! this really sucks...it was my favourite snake too...AHHH!! MY IJ!!!!
does anyone have ideas of where to look?? i've tried under beds and stuff...i'll conduct another thorough search of the house again tonight....i fear that this guy can't survive in the wild cos' hes not really an aggressive feeder...and is SUPER tame...if he does manage anyway...i think winter will kill him...-25 for goodness sake...i so miss him already....

[Tim and Julie B]

Make a hot spot somewhere the snake will feel safe. When he gets cold he will look for somewhere warm to go. I was called to a scorpion search one time when a friend who was house sitting for his parents lost a scorpion in the house. We started in that room and removed everything, looked everywhere, put everything back and started on the next room. That's the best way leave no piece of furniture unturned!

[Matt]

Dont forget to look up too...an ij may be inclined to hide up top in a closert or something.
You can try putting a rat is a rubbermaid (with the lid off) on top of a heat pad in the room the snake may be in. The rat will attract the snake and then it may stay there because of the heat.

[ranmasatome]

thanks guys...but i think he has gone into the walls...which kinda sucks cos' i can't seems to find him...its bee 2 days already!! so i've pretty much given up hope....i'll try looking in the attic this weekend....its just nasty up there...

[JIMI]

He probably didnt go far.

[mk-ultra]

keep looking man put a water bowl in each room and try to makle hot spot i once found a snake 1 week after i lost it :)

[reverendsterlin]

I found 1 after about 6 weeks he came out to the water bowl that I had put a plastic plant next to

[Zoe]

Look at night with a flashlight. He'll be out and about then.
You can also sprinkle flower on the floor to see if he moves around at night.
If he you think he is, and he's small enough (is he?), take a 2 litre coke bottle, rinse it really well, and shove a mouse down there. When he's hungry, he may smell the mouse, go in the bottle to eat it, and stay here if it's warm there.
GOOD LUCK FINDING HIM, I know how nervewracking this can be!

Zoe

[ThEmAdHaTtEr]

Or...You might wanna go buy a feeder mouse at ur local pet store, make an 'out of enclosure enclosure' with a mouse locked up nice and tight into a cheapie mouse house or whatever u wanna call it. Just have a water bowl, a hide spot, plants, things like that. Dip the mouse in chicken broth too, it sparks the scent a little better. Best of luck to you, I just recently lost one of my Ball Pythons only to find she was wrapped arond my bedframe up inside of it. Like Tim and Julie B said, dont leave ANYTHING unchecked. Once again, best of luck. -Hatter

[Mike177]

I would try putting a mouse on the floor and a good hide spot nexed to it with maby a heat lamp or something. that way when he eats he will go into the hide spot. but sometimes time tells all

[RachelS.]

Mike, you got that idea from meeee!!! *growls evilly* lol jk.
Yeah try that ranmasatome :)

[ranmasatome]

Thanks...will try that tonight'..

[Mike P]

Be persistent in your search! Dont give up. I once lost a juvenile spotted python and I searched everyday after work for about half an hour for 2 weeks and one day I came home opened the closet and there he was.