FireTigress
06-30-05, 01:34 PM
Ok everyone, here's one for the books. This morning I was running around crazy getting ready for my first herp presentation with a day camp group (which went very well btw) and I was going to bring my cali king snake but she was blue so I put her back. Well, I got back a couple hours later and noticed that her cage wasn't locked and after digging around madly though the aspen, and cusing more then I ever do, I found she was not in her cage. My bedroom door was shut and the space under the door is too small for any of my snakes to get out so I knew was in the room somewhere. After looking in all the obvious places, under cages, bed, and all along the walls, I figured it was time to start a major search. I put the rest of my snakes away to get them out of the way and started tearing my room apart. Everything came out of the closet, was shaken out and then put out of the room. All the while I'm going over the threads I've read about other peoples snakes escaping and what they said was the best way to catch them. I'm looking in dark places, under other cages where it's warm, and I pulled all the drawers in my dresser. I kept asking myself how I could have been so stupid not to close the cage door, and that I should have known this would happen eventually. By now half my room is out in the living room. Just because I'm paranoid, I check my other snakes to make sure they're still in their cages. Then, in my candy cane corn snake's cage, I see a black and white striped body. I opened the door and grabed her, not caring if she tried to bite me like she usually does. So, I didn't forget to lock the cage like I thought, I just locked her in the wrong cage, then put the right snake in there with her. So my record still stand, none of my snakes have ever gotten lost for any loner then two minutes. Now I'm going to go check on them all again. *sighs*