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    Juvenile snake Morph's Avatar
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    Dinky escaped.... well not really

    Had a MAJOR panic earlier today. I opened up the viv to change the water and was surprised to see no signs of him anywhere. i lifted the hides, nothing. I lifted the water bowl, nothing. I raked through the substrate and yet again nothing.
    So i started pulling out the furniture to see if i could find him, thinking that he'd found a way to escape. After about an hour of looking i went back to the viv and saw about 5mm of his tail poking out from behind the background!!!

    Needless to say i was extremely relieved and immediately took out the background to save me having yet another heart attack

    Not great news but thought i would share my latest in a long string of animal oriented entertainment
    0.0.1 Sesarma bidens ~ Clawz
    1.1.0 Thamnophis marcianus ~ Mr & Mrs Dinky
    0.1.0 Trachemys scripta eligans ~ Vikki
    1.0.0 Trachemys scripta scripta ~ Mr.T
    2.0.0 Rattus rattus ~ Rolo & Munchie

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    Re: Dinky escaped.... well not really

    I've had that happen
    they hang out in the darnedest placed
    rhea
    "you cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus" Mark Twain


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    Re: Dinky escaped.... well not really

    it made me laugh cos he's got so many hideing places and yet prefers hiding behind a piece of paper. i'm sure i have many more similar events to come
    0.0.1 Sesarma bidens ~ Clawz
    1.1.0 Thamnophis marcianus ~ Mr & Mrs Dinky
    0.1.0 Trachemys scripta eligans ~ Vikki
    1.0.0 Trachemys scripta scripta ~ Mr.T
    2.0.0 Rattus rattus ~ Rolo & Munchie

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    Re: Dinky escaped.... well not really

    I've had them get inside the strip light fittings sometimes!
    James.

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    Re: Dinky escaped.... well not really

    Quote Originally Posted by adamanteus View Post
    I've had them get inside the strip light fittings sometimes!
    Haha that made me giggle. I can just immagine that!
    0.0.1 Sesarma bidens ~ Clawz
    1.1.0 Thamnophis marcianus ~ Mr & Mrs Dinky
    0.1.0 Trachemys scripta eligans ~ Vikki
    1.0.0 Trachemys scripta scripta ~ Mr.T
    2.0.0 Rattus rattus ~ Rolo & Munchie

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    Re: Dinky escaped.... well not really

    Oh I've been there. Lost a 95cm female in the substrate on Thursday. Took me 20+ minutes to find her.

    And then there's the reason why I named her after Patricia Tallman..



    Who wants to guess how long it took before it occurred to me to look in that spot? Above the swinging door, picture taken from below.

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    Re: Dinky escaped.... well not really

    my xenochrophis seem to love those spots along the top of the tank frame
    rhea
    "you cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus" Mark Twain


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    Re: Dinky escaped.... well not really

    I think everybody of us already experienced this
    They are a mast at 'disappearing' and yet still being in their enclosure.

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    Re: Dinky escaped.... well not really

    Lol I've done this, its especially easy to lose them in an enclosure thats as big as mine. I lost some as a kid. I kept them outside in big industrial buckets, I left a few outside one day, some babies and an adult next to the shed, so the could sun themselves. Neighbor kids let them loose, found the adult though, was such a releif hehe.

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    Re: Dinky escaped.... well not really

    When I lived with my room-mates in Massachusetts, we had a communal garter snake tank, with 5 garters in it, the smallest garter snake, despite our best efforts of placing heavy objects on the lid, would manage to escape through the lid, we would nearly always find him across the kitchen, down the stairs, and down the hall in his owners room, patiently waiting to be found. Once we had to dig to the bottom of our 30 gallon trash bin because he thought he smelled food in there.

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