very scary

kidchameleon · 03-24-04, 07:10 PM

today i came home from school to find out that my veiled had escaped from her 10 gallon tank. i was panicking and searching all over my room and house. i even had my dad and sister help me look for her. after about 45 minutes of searching, i found her. she was on top of my jackson's cage haha. she had gotten out by climbing up a branch, onto the hygrometer, onto the heat light wires, down them, across my floor, up the wires that lead up to my jackson's uva/uvb light, and was sitting on top of his cage. it was very very scary.

Collide · 03-24-04, 07:25 PM

lol I had a 3 hour old vild escape on me lol. all u have to do is look up and youll find them but yes it can be very very scary, specially if u have 3 killer cats in your house.

kidchameleon · 03-24-04, 07:39 PM

yeah i have a dog that literally eats anything and everything. he even eats crickets that have escaped haha. i really thought that he had eaten her.

xdiversichicx · 03-24-04, 07:46 PM

one day my bf didnt get the door to our males enclosure closed completely and he got out. when i found him he was haning upside down in my closet on one of my shirts.

meow_mix450 · 03-24-04, 08:12 PM

lol ha ha your dog eats crikets is that good for them?

i sometimes forget to close my chameleons door, and he did escape once, and i was like....uh oh.....looked all around, and hes blue, how can i miss him, he was on the tv cable, climbing up to the tv

Meow

Lrptls · 03-24-04, 08:12 PM

iv never had escaped chameleons, well..i dont havey any chameleons, but i have the same problem with the cats, if any thing got out and out of the herp room if it was small enough it would be dead.

i also have a dog that eats crickets but the big black ones outside

kidchameleon · 03-25-04, 08:48 AM

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Originally posted by meow_mix450
lol ha ha your dog eats crikets is that good for them? i sometimes forget to close my chameleons door, and he did escape once, and i was like....uh oh.....looked all around, and hes blue, how can i miss him, he was on the tv cable, climbing up to the tv

Meow

well thats not that bad, because its blue and probably a lot bigger than mine. mine is a pale-ish green and is about 3 inches. i was even thinking that she somehow got in my jackson's cage and he ate her haha.

choriona · 03-25-04, 12:21 PM

One of my female veileds was missing for 3 days and presumed dead (I had a cat at the time). We finally found her, but it took a lot of work. WE pulled apart the area under the stairs where we keep christmas boxes and suitcases. Well, My dad whould look in the suitcase, then pass it to me to look in, then I passed it to my mom to look in. And guess who found her! My mom is terrified of reptiles, and she was the last one to look in the bag, and I guess me and my dad both missed her!!!
She was very black and very cold. I put her under the heat lamp and she came to quickly, and had no ill side effects. I think she just shut down.

From that day on, my mom made me put a towel in the space under the door so my cham couldn't get out again.

I concluded that her wandering was her looking for a mate. She laid her first clutch of eggs a month later.