Escape story

[Big Mike]

Our king snake came to see us off this morning.

We were just about to leave the house this morning when my girlfriend picked up her backpack and found our three foot long king snake under it.

This was quite surprising to say the least. We have never had an escape before and his enclosure is a glass tank with a snap on metal cage style lid. The lid snaps on so tight that my girlfriend usually needs my help to get it off.

Zeus had pushed up a corner of the cage lid and snook out the little gap that was created. The only explanation I can think of is that my girlfriend did not fully snap the lid back into place when we cleaned the enclosures last time.

I feel very lucky that he managed to find his way across the house and to just about the only hiding spot that allowed us to find him before we left for the day.

He is usually quite pissy when we try to grab him but he was rather calm (and quite warm) as we put him back into his enclosure.

Just goes to show ya...you can never be too careful about keeping your enclosures secure. Especially with king snakes.