missing snake!

caroloke · 05-31-17, 01:09 PM

hi after my corn snake went missing about 12 months ago, we have searched the house emptied rooms you name it we've done it... we gave up thinking maybe it had got out, 2 days ago I was getting new central heating fitted an when they took up the floor boards that id already done before I found a perfect skin shred, any ideas on how I can coax it out from under floor boards.
I've put a heat mat down there and some water hoping it will find the heat source. Has anyone else got any suggestion please.. and thanks for taking time to read x

Scubadiver59 · 05-31-17, 01:29 PM

No telling how old that shed is...

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Originally Posted by caroloke

hi after my corn snake went missing about 12 months ago, we have searched the house emptied rooms you name it we've done it... we gave up thinking maybe it had got out, 2 days ago I was getting new central heating fitted an when they took up the floor boards that id already done before I found a perfect skin shred, any ideas on how I can coax it out from under floor boards.
I've put a heat mat down there and some water hoping it will find the heat source. Has anyone else got any suggestion please.. and thanks for taking time to read x

caroloke · 05-31-17, 05:09 PM

the shed is about a week only as when they came to measure up it wasn't there then x

Azrt · 05-31-17, 05:55 PM

missing for a year? Not to be rude but more than likely he is dead...if he out of the house he's either dead or someone found and kept him

RAD House · 05-31-17, 06:08 PM

My corn was gone for eight months and he was only a baby when he got out. I don't think finding a snake after a year is unheard of. As far as teasing him out, I failed horribly at that, so I won't be much help.

Herpin' Man · 05-31-17, 08:10 PM

Snakes need moisture- that is why escapees are often recovered in bathrooms and laundry rooms.
I would moisten some towels, and lay them along the walls in areas where you think that the snake may be, especially in the basement, if the house has one.
If the snake is dehydrated, it is very likely to remain under one of the towels after it encounters one.
Look under the towels every day, and you may find your snake.

Azrt · 05-31-17, 09:13 PM

Wasn't trying to be rude. I think I'd give up after so long. Lol

Jim Smith · 05-31-17, 09:21 PM

There is also the very real possibility that the shed skin is from a wild snake that found a way into the house and under the floor. Just a thought...

toddnbecka · 06-01-17, 12:59 AM

I'd try a live mouse in a screen topped glass tank. More likely to come out for food than heat.

caroloke · 06-01-17, 05:40 AM

thanks for your help and suggestions will try the mouse in a screen x I didn't think of a wild snake getting in lol... x

dannybgoode · 06-01-17, 06:26 AM

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Originally Posted by caroloke

thanks for your help and suggestions will try the mouse in a screen x I didn't think of a wild snake getting in lol... x

To be honest in Liverpool I doubt its a wild snake and is very likely from yours.

Corns turn up in all sorts of places and I've heard of them often surviving an English winter outside so don't give up hope.

dannybgoode · 06-01-17, 06:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim Smith

There is also the very real possibility that the shed skin is from a wild snake that found a way into the house and under the floor. Just a thought...

Check the location of the OP

akane · 06-01-17, 08:26 AM

I have no real hope on my lost snake but people have found various species still living in their house for shelter and overall healthy a year later. It could happen. Probably won't but could. I'm just not going to plan for it and filled her tank 3 weeks later. Odds are my little one is dried up in the hole filled, hollow space plaster walls somewhere

My house is not conductive to finding tiny loose baby snakes. At least my sumatran when he got out was not difficult. Just stressful. What mood is the python in and where is he hiding... I decided using my hands to lift things was dumb and got my cheap snake stick.

Jim Smith · 06-01-17, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by dannybgoode

Check the location of the OP

Fair enough. I must admit that I did not check his location. Here in Georgia, it is not unusual to see snakes and they quite often find their way into homes, usually through cracks in the foundation or up under loose siding etc. In Liverpool, England, maybe not so common.

dannybgoode · 06-01-17, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim Smith

Fair enough. I must admit that I did not check his location. Here in Georgia, it is not unusual to see snakes and they quite often find their way into homes, usually through cracks in the foundation or up under loose siding etc. In Liverpool, England, maybe not so common.

You've more chance of seeing a unicorn that a wild snake in Liverpool to be honest. We only have two native snakes and both are rare and Liverpool is right at the northern range for them. Plus it's too built up.

Sheffield where I live is much the same but here we're not far away from some of the most stunning countryside in the world and both the grass snake (Natrix natrix) and adder (Vipera berus) can very occasionally be found there.