Hey
I know you guys don't know me...but I could really use a bit of comfort today. I've had my Kenyan Sand Boa for about 8 months now and a couple of weeks ago I found he was missing. We tore the house apart, and I've tried baiting where it made sense that he'd be hiding....nothing.
Dig Dug hasn't eaten in about a month...because he had started refusing food shortly before he went missing. Yesterday I started combing through the house a little more thoroughly, starting where his tank is and found a hole in the floor leading down for the pipe for our water heating that he would totally fit in. It was right where he would have fallen when he got out and seems like the path of least resistance. I don't know the people below us, but I can tell you we all have cinderblock ceilings, so his only access points are through these little pipe holes. The people who live on my floor know he's missing, and are scared (despite my attempts to explain that they shouldn't be). We have cats (3) so I can't do any of the babypower/flour/cornstarch traps and am, of course scared that he'll come home and get eaten.
I'm going to continue looking for him today, starting with looking in the ceiling tiles in the hallway that I noticed yesterday.....
I had a dream last night that I was looking for him and he was still in his tank and I was so happy....then I woke up and knew it was just a dream, checked anyway and started to cry. I don't think I'll ever find him.
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