What a 24 hour period! Ceramic issues, 1st escape, 1st tag, 2nd escape, 3rd escape! All in 24 hours!
Put the corns in their fantastic luxury viv yesterday afternoon - noticed whilst "decorating" the three vivs that at the back of the python's viv there is a hole where the guy before had some cable or other coming into the viv. Monty is currently at school learning to eat so made a mental note that need to cover teh hole before he comes home again.
After about 45minutes of the corns being in their viv one of the clips holding the ceramic to the roof of the viv snapped (no idea why) meaning that the ceramic was just sitting in its cage. Dangerous me thinks so turns off the ceramic - what to do with the corns?? Ahhh - Monty's viv is all set up and ready to go - lets put them in there for now - i can mend the ceramic when its cooled down and move them back later.
Roll on 2:30 am - woken by a noise downstairs. Our cats are prolific hunters - always bringing mice, slow worms, birds etc into the house. I trudge downstairs expecting to find a dead something and instead find the best hunter of the two cats pinned into a cornet by one of the corns that is striking at the cat ( the corn is 18inches long!!) - the cat is terrified!!
Not really being awake i bent to pick up the snake and got myself tagged (first official bite!!! woohoo!). I realise that the hole is still open in the viv, hence how he got out so as a temporary measure i grab the corns old faunarium - put both of them in (one of them was still in the viv luckily) clip the lid on the faunarium and place it inside the viv so that they are getting some heat until morning when i can sort things out.
Got up this morning - removed the faunarium from the viv - the lid is still clipped on - but no snakes!! they have somehow escaped the faunarium (locking it behind them!) and then used the same hole to escape the viv!
I repaired their original ceramic - search for and find them both - thankfully!! And put them back into their viv before going out.
Came home about an hour ago and Kevin is gone again!! From a locked viv!! I know about them escaping between the glass doors but there is seriously less the 3mm gap??
Have searched the house top to bottom but no sign so will have to start trying to trap the little bugger now!
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