Ahhhh... My snake escaped:( - Page 2

Primal Rage · 01-19-14, 10:14 AM

Jim,
I'm very sorry to hear about Spirit. The stress of a missing animal is agonizing. She will likely go for cover first. Was her enclosure near a bathroom or laundry room? I would check areas like those first. Even in cabinets under sinks!

If you were a little closer I would volunteer to come over and help look for her! Please keep us posted and good luck!-Patrick

Jim Smith · 01-19-14, 12:00 PM

Patrick,

Thank you the very generous offer, but I'm fairly certain that she'll show up when and where we least expect it. There is one other place I will be checking this afternoon and that's under the two cabinets I have the cages on. They are large and fairly heavy (150ish lbs each) and I have to move all my cages off of the cabinets to move them. I'll post an update when I find her.

Kera · 01-19-14, 01:53 PM

Good luck, again. keep us updated

BIGT FROM F.B. · 01-19-14, 05:04 PM

You're not even going to believe this, but I had a Ball Python do the same thing. Only difference is, it had the entire downstairs of the house to hide in.

An exterminator told me to get duct tape and lay strips of it sticky side up perpendicular to the walls and also completely across doorways. When the snake changes locations, it will get in the duct tape and become immobile. Then you can use olive oil to remove the tape. Worked like a charm. The only drawback to it was, it escaped in the winter and was out for 2 days. Almost too late when I caught him.

LOL!!! I discovered this trick at 10:30 at night and the only place left open that I found duct tape was the local Chevron. The cashier was like "oooookkkkaaaayyyy, someone comes in here after 10pm and buys all of the duct tape I have. I'm not even going to ask." I told him the story and he was glad he wasn't going to see a kidnapping on the local news!!!

Jinxygirl · 01-19-14, 05:14 PM

My corn has escaped twice, the first time I went crazy and searched everywhere for her but had no luck finding her so I gave up searching and decided to just wait and see if she popped up on her own and sure enough she did. She was behind my big wardrobe which I wasn't able to move while I was looking for her. The second time she escaped she actually made it out of our bedroom and I didn't even try searching for her that time and then a few hours later I found her in the bathroom. We live in a 3 story house and I still ended up finding her both times, you will find yours but searching for them just gets stressful and if you keep quiet they will usually come out of hiding. Good luck!

KORBIN5895 · 01-19-14, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by BIGT FROM F.B.

You're not even going to believe this, but I had a Ball Python do the same thing. Only difference is, it had the entire downstairs of the house to hide in.

An exterminator told me to get duct tape and lay strips of it sticky side up perpendicular to the walls and also completely across doorways. When the snake changes locations, it will get in the duct tape and become immobile. Then you can use olive oil to remove the tape. Worked like a charm. The only drawback to it was, it escaped in the winter and was out for 2 days. Almost too late when I caught him.

LOL!!! I discovered this trick at 10:30 at night and the only place left open that I found duct tape was the local Chevron. The cashier was like "oooookkkkaaaayyyy, someone comes in here after 10pm and buys all of the duct tape I have. I'm not even going to ask." I told him the story and he was glad he wasn't going to see a kidnapping on the local news!!!

This may be the worst advice I have ever heard..... You can seriously hurt your snake this way.

BIGT FROM F.B. · 01-19-14, 06:08 PM

Well, it got the job done and made my wife a lot more relaxed. Gotta do what ya' gotta' do sometimes.

Shann · 01-19-14, 06:12 PM

Yeah I would never use tape of any kind to trap a loose snake. I've seen too many horrific injuries from tape...

Good luck searching!

kelzerman · 01-19-14, 08:22 PM

Idk if you have any boxes around and if you already have not checked look in those.

smy_749 · 01-19-14, 09:01 PM

lost your snake !!!!! this is how to make a trap - CornSnakes.com Forums

LarryS · 01-20-14, 05:44 AM

Sorry to hear this news Jim. Best of luck on a speedy return.

Any idea how the animal got out?

SnakeyJay · 01-20-14, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by BIGT FROM F.B.

An exterminator told me to get duct tape and lay strips of it sticky side up perpendicular to the walls and also completely across doorways. When the snake changes locations, it will get in the duct tape and become immobile. Then you can use olive oil to remove the tape. Worked like a charm. The only drawback to it was, it escaped in the winter and was out for 2 days. Almost too late when I caught !!

Lmao- Worst advice I've ever seen unless you want to peel the skin from your snake!

kelzerman · 01-20-14, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Snakey-Jay

Lmao- Worst advice I've ever seen unless you want to peel the skin from your snake!

Not only that I would also be afraid for suffocation. If that tape got around his head. Who the hell would recommend that?!

Jim Smith · 01-20-14, 03:09 PM

I think that BIGT suggestion was very well intentioned, but if you consider the source where he got the recommendation, it was from an exterminator. My experience with exterminators are that they are trying to rid the house of any (pests) including snakes and any snake caught in his tape trap would very probably be dispatched by him as a pest. Thanks BIGT, I sincerely appreciate your taking the time to respond to my posting, but I think there are ways to find the snake that are much less likely to result in harming the snake. Thanks again everyone for your kind words, well wishes and suggestions, including BIGT.

samoothie · 01-20-14, 10:00 PM

A snake of mine got loose a few months ago. Sadly, we found him dead outside of our garage about a week or two ago, completely clueless as to how he got outside. So check the perimeter of your house, he could really be anywhere.