Snake on the loose - Page 2

sattva · 03-26-17, 06:44 AM

Wow! Congratulations... I can't believe he crawled back in there by him self... Now you need to spank him, tell him no! so he doesn't do this again...haha..

GyGbeetle · 03-27-17, 10:30 AM

That is a naughty naughty snake! I'm so glad this worked out. My burmese escaped the first night we brought her home. I started crying and screaming and tearing apart our house, hating myself for allowing her to escape. She was in the most unconventional location you could imagine, underneath a nightstand in the bedroom. My husband thought to look there; I think he has some sort of telepathic connection to snakes. Because who ever would have thought to look there? I'm so happy you have a happy ending for this!

Churro · 03-28-17, 01:53 AM

Congrats on his safe return. Good idea, putting his viv. on the floor.

Jim Smith · 03-28-17, 07:57 AM

That's amazing that he actually crawled back into his enclosure. I wish they were all as well behaved. That said, it was very smart of you to put the enclosure one the floor where he could easily find it.

Your story reminds me of a time I got in trouble with my mom over a pet mouse. As a kid, I had found a pinkie Deer mouse in a rotten tree that had fallen down. I took it home and bottle fed it until it was an adult. I had a nice wooden cage I'd made complete with a hide where he would shred up newspaper and sleep. One day, my mom told me that it was getting towards fall and that I had to let him go. I took him outside about 100 feet from the house and let him go by a stream we had in the back yard. His cage was on the floor in the basement with the doors closed. The next day, I heard my mom scream bloody murder and then yelled for me to come down stairs pronto. She scolded me for not letting the mouse go as she had instructed. She had blindly reached into his hide to empty out the shredded newspaper and ended up grabbing the mouse who had somehow found his way back to the house, found a way in and returned to his cage. I released him again only this time I took him about 1/2 mile from the house into the woods. No matter what I said, my mom never believed that I actually released the mouse the day before.

SnakeyJay · 03-29-17, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by dannybgoode

Great news and good thinking on putting his Viv on the floor. Anyone who has kept snakes for any length of time is lying if they say they've never had an escapee-happens to everyone at some point...

8 years so far with not a single escapee, also no mites either...

I'm careful with long periods of quarantine and have never left a viv open or set any up with any gaps to escape... Most people have had escapee's but not really fair to say everyone has dude

jay's reptiles · 03-29-17, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by dannybgoode

Great news and good thinking on putting his Viv on the floor. Anyone who has kept snakes for any length of time is lying if they say they've never had an escapee-happens to everyone at some point...

i have never had snakes escape. but im dreading the day it happens.

SnakeyJay · 03-29-17, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by jay's reptiles

i have never had snakes escape. but im dreading the day it happens.

Think it's something we all dread tbh.... once they're out it must be like a needle in a haystack.. Unless you lose a retic, should be easy enough to find an adult lmao

dannybgoode · 03-29-17, 12:24 PM

Ok - a lot of people experience an escape at some point

I've never had mites though and yes I'm cautious with quarantine - especially with animals bought from say Donnie. That's a mite infestation waiting to happen!

Magdalen · 03-29-17, 12:48 PM

I only had one escape and it wasn't an error on my part. My room mate's cat busted him out. I found him, Kenyan Sand Boa, shortly in my closet thankfully. Nice to have had a bright orange snake haha

SnakeyJay · 03-29-17, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by dannybgoode

Ok - a lot of people experience an escape at some point

I've never had mites though and yes I'm cautious with quarantine - especially with animals bought from say Donnie. That's a mite infestation waiting to happen!

Definitely, I just rarely buy anything... not much of an impulse buyer apart from my inverts so that probably helps with not catching mites lmao.

I had a friend lose a corn for about 6 months, it reappeared 6ft off the floor in a cupboard above the kettle. Staying warm from the steam. They can get into the craziest of places hah.

**Tsubaki** · 03-29-17, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by SnakeyJay

8 years so far with not a single escapee, also no mites either...

I'm careful with long periods of quarantine and have never left a viv open or set any up with any gaps to escape... Most people have had escapee's but not really fair to say everyone has dude

Same for me, about 8 years. Unless I do not count that time a Burmese python pushed out the complete ventilation grid from his tank (Still being trapped in my sealed snake room). Then it would be +/- 18 years.

I currently do not have a fully saleable snake room yet.. So I will have check, and double check.. Be in bed comfortably, and then still go to triple check.. My so thinks I have issues, especially when I haven't had any enclosures open and still go check

.. I do not have OCD, Just a bit over the top anxiety about one of my snakes potentially getting out and hurting themselves or my dog or anything.. An adult reticulated python escaping is a little different from a Kingsnake or a Sandboa.. but I'm just as fixated on checking the enclosures of my smaller snakes.. I just like them to stay right where they are!

Jpham33 · 03-29-17, 04:42 PM

It's not a fun feeling to have an escapee. It was cool to follow the tracks from theflour I put down tho. I believe he was hiding somewhere in the washer/dryer, probably some hole or dark area he could get into from the back, I pulled it out when I would look for him but never saw him. It looked like he had the time of his life because everywhere I put flour down he crossed, which was pretty much the whole basement.

It's funny to watch him now because he's always trying to get out and explore again. I think I spent a good 30mins to 1hr of watching him try and squeeze his head through anything. When they say these guys are escape artists, they really mean it.

Doug 351 · 03-30-17, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Jpham33

It's not a fun feeling to have an escapee. It was cool to follow the tracks from theflour I put down tho. I believe he was hiding somewhere in the washer/dryer, probably some hole or dark area he could get into from the back, I pulled it out when I would look for him but never saw him. It looked like he had the time of his life because everywhere I put flour down he crossed, which was pretty much the whole basement.

BTW: I have SERIOUSLY lost track of the amount of times Oscar has escaped!

It's funny to watch him now because he's always trying to get out and explore again. I think I spent a good 30mins to 1hr of watching him try and squeeze his head through anything. When they say these guys are escape artists, they really mean it.

They don't want to " Get out and explore..." they want to ESCAPE CAPTIVITY!

You experienced something that cannot be replicated 1 time in 100,000.... They almost NEVER come back, and THE ODDS GO WAY DOWN FOR A REPEAT!

akane · 03-30-17, 07:47 PM

I think I have narrowed down all possibilities (that are recoverable) to under the fridge for mine. It's the closest heat source in a cool house besides the vent system we keep checking the bottom and filters of. Now how do you convince a desert species that has been loose in a cool house for about a week to come out and make the location dog proof..... I can't just flip a box over or something like some sites suggest because the dogs will destroy it and all powders will be scattered. I'm thinking of duct taping a bottle on a heat mat to the floor in front of the fridge with water and a pinky inside. It skipped it's last meal when it went disappearing but ate before that so should be fine longer than it will last without water. Possibly hungry enough to use that though. Unfortunately the house is full of holes where people ran various pipes and wires and never made it neat and the holes smell like wild rodents. Once in the floors, wall, or basement all hope is lost. It'll take a month to get through that and the snake will be dead in the cold basement on probably 40F concrete even without food and water to consider.

Doug 351 · 03-30-17, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by akane

I think I have narrowed down all possibilities (that are recoverable) to under the fridge for mine. It's the closest heat source in a cool house besides the vent system we keep checking the bottom and filters of. Now how do you convince a desert species that has been loose in a cool house for about a week to come out and make the location dog proof..... I can't just flip a box over or something like some sites suggest because the dogs will destroy it and all powders will be scattered. I'm thinking of duct taping a bottle on a heat mat to the floor in front of the fridge with water and a pinky inside. It skipped it's last meal when it went disappearing but ate before that so should be fine longer than it will last without water. Possibly hungry enough to use that though. Unfortunately the house is full of holes where people ran various pipes and wires and never made it neat and the holes smell like wild rodents. Once in the floors, wall, or basement all hope is lost. It'll take a month to get through that and the snake will be dead in the cold basement on probably 40F concrete even without food and water to consider.

You might be surprised, and ( I hope so)... But, a snake, regardless of heritage, is not likely to freeze in your home.

I have had my snake escape many times, (sometimes for months)... and it took a Herculean effort to LOCATE her...( a 2 footer can hide in a matchbox!!!!)

They're tougher than you think...you'll find it...alive...and as they say, "Where you least expect it!"

If you you really want your snake back, TEAR YOUR HOUSE APART !!!

What I mean is: look EVERYWHERE! I don't know about trying to bait a trap...

#1: Check your closets...( especially shoes!) #2: Check those top shelves...(and all boxes there)..

It's amazing how well snakes can climb.

Your snake is in your home, but you are going to have to work your butt off to find it...

(And that means gping through EVERYTHING!).