Help quickly...i need your help

[SpiderLord]

seeing as no ones viewing the ball python section i cam to general disscusion...i need help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ilost my ball python...its quite humorous how though...i fell asleep next to him....!!!!!!!!!! i need some help finding him...but its gonna be like finding the proverbial needle in the haystack

[Jeff_Favelle]

That's humourous? Hmmm....

[SpiderLord]

not that i lost him

[Ptindy]

Can you narrow it down to the room you lost him in? Or is it open to your whole house? Best bet would be set up some basking spot. Throw a mouse in it and hope for the best. Otherwise look hard, even in the stupidest spots.

Mike

[BoidsUnlimited]

I dont find it humorous.......I find it irresponsible.

Search one room at a time, when done with a room, block it off.

[BoidKeeper]

This still belongs in the ball forum.

[Boidbrain]

When we have escaped ball pythons they usually turn up in one of our bathrooms. We also had one go to our basement ( we breed our rodents down there). Good luck finding your ball.

[RepTylE]

Irresponsible yes but these things happen. I keep my room door closed when I have my BP's or my Boa out. My room is escape proof so if the door is closed it narrows down any neccessary searching considerably. I hope that you recover your escapee and you gain a good lesson from all of this. Something about tearing your house apart looking desperately for a snake that kind of burns it's way into your memory.

[Brad C]

If you loose your car keys what do you do? You look for them. Unless you have one of those toys that beep to let you know where you lost them lol. Snakes arnt much different because really the only thing you can do is look for him, setup a hidebox with rodent, also you could try some heat to bring him in.

GL

[sapphire_moon]

try putting flour or something thats safe for him around the edges of your room, also don't forget to look up. I don't remember where it is but someone wrote an awesome post on finding lost snakes. It was either in the colubrid section or in general discussion.
And I agree with ptindy, put a basking spot somewhere with maybe a hide spot. Don't forget shoes, hats and anything that can be considered a hiding spot, from model cars to gloves.

Goodluck!

[robitza]

When my little guy got out I searched all day. My wife got home and we were both thankful that we couldn't dust behind the furniture. We found a trail and followed it to the escapee.

[kjay]

put flour around the baseboards, put red light hotspot out, with a hide, bowl of water, turn your house heat up so he leaves his warm spot he is hiding in, i read in a few spots the following, take very fine thread tie it to a dead mouse tie the other end to a large piece of styro foam, snake eats mouse thread is in the snake and it cant head for small spaces because the styro follows him, my thoughts are if they can digest teeth and bones wiskers and hair a bit of thread should be nothing, if he tkaes the bait pick up your snake cut the thread, this may be a last resort step with the thread, you can buy organic thread that breaks down

[SpiderLord]

i found him..he was under my bed...he is blind in one eye..and hes got some other crap..evil petstores...im going to get a different one in the morning..hes to sick..i cant pay the vet bills

[BoidKeeper]

i cant pay the vet bills
If you can't pay the vet bills the answer is not another pet store ball that you are going to be told is healthy. What if it get's sick? How will you pay the vet bill then? Animals get sick, it's a fact of life. Whether it be a ball or a dog or a cat, it doesn't matter. If you can't pay vet bills it is highly irresponsible to assume the care of that animal. In other words if you can't afford to care for an animal if it gets sick then you shouldn't get it. It's just plain wrong. Animals don't ask to live with us and if you can't provide for their every need then buy an animal book, not an animal.
If you still want an animal but can't afford vet bills maybe get a gold fish.
My advice would be to start doing more reaserch now and then when you money situation improves then try it again.
Animals are not expandable, the attitude of "it's just a snake or just a cat" needs to change. I'm not saying that you have this attitude but you do have a sick snake on your hands and your answer is to the problem is to bring it back to the pet shop and let them deal with it because you can't afford to.
Why not go after them to pay the vet bill to clean up the sick animal they sold you instead of letting them just turn around and sell it to the next unexperienced person who walks through their doors.
Trevor

[arkuden]

i dont think that could have been said any better Trevor.

You made a commitment when you bought this snake, its your responsibility to keep it alive. If anything get it to the vet and once its doing well, then find someone who is responsible to take the snake.

[RepTylE]

Originally posted by arkuden
i dont think that could have been said any better Trevor.
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DITTO!

[joebagadohnut]

Yeah that is pretty darn irresponsible. You can't just keep trading your snakes until you get one that doesn't get sick for a while.

When you get a ball, you cant just assume that it is going to cost $75 to buy, a few dollars a month for food, and then a tank and heating.....
You have to make sure that if something goes wrong that you can help it. If you can't pay for the vet bills, then try to find someone that can, and don't get another snake.

Like trevor said, buy yourself a fish or something. Then again, goldfish can be pricey. How about some superworms?

jeremy.

[SpiderLord]

i can take it to the vet...one reason i cant pay the vet bills is...i cant find a good reptile vet..i am currently looking...hahaha...wanted to get some negative feedback...

[SpiderLord]

oh and your attitude is crap...i dont wanna hear your smartalic bull****.....maybe you should raise the superworm colony....HUH?...well have a terrible day..i dont need to hear your crap...i can pay the vet bills if i want to...and i want to...oh and it wasnt 75 dollars...hehehe..weirdo

[SpiderLord]

oh and i have plenty of pets..i dont need to get a goldfish.

[BoidKeeper]

i cant find a good reptile vet
Any vet is better than no vet. I waited 2 hrs yesterday while my vet called all over easter Canada to find the answer to a question she didn't know. A vet doens't need to be a reptile vet to help. All vets have many different resouces at their disposal that they can and do use to solve problems.
Trevor

[SpiderLord]

thankyou..i found a vet..this is good..now everythings set

[BoidKeeper]

Great, good luck. I still think you should go after the store for the bill. They sold you a sick snake, probably knowing it was sick too, they should pay to make it right.
Keep us posted,
Trevor

[SpiderLord]

im going to do that..i will...

[susan]

Originally posted by SpiderLord
oh and your attitude is crap...i dont wanna hear your smartalic bull****.....maybe you should raise the superworm colony....HUH?...well have a terrible day..i dont need to hear your crap...i can pay the vet bills if i want to...and i want to...oh and it wasnt 75 dollars...hehehe..weirdo


from the sounds of this i think you may need to grow up and learn to be responsible for your animals,you made the commitment by getting them so now do it

[RepTylE]

Originally posted by SpiderLord
i found him..he was under my bed...he is blind in one eye..and hes got some other crap..evil petstores...im going to get a different one in the morning..hes to sick..i cant pay the vet bills

Question is, if he looked so ill in the store why did you buy him? I mean if you buy a sick animal you pretty much have to assume that you have alot of problems to address.
When you can see there are problems and you buy it anyway don't come crying to the people in the forums for cheap solutions because there aren't many of them. All you are going to get for advice is, "take him to the vet".

Don't chide us for giving good advice just because it isn't the advice you want to read .

[joebagadohnut]

Do you not have a vet for all your other pets?