My snake JUST escaped.

[Snake lover 3-25]

one time I found it when I happened to glance down before vacuuming my room and saw it's head sticking out of the vacuum machine the second before I turned it on. Jeez.

OMG lucky you you ALMOST lost him for real that time!!!!

[drache]

hope he turns up soon

[infernalis]

Good luck!!

For folks that have hide a bed sofas, our corn snake escaped once when he was only a couple months old.

Dorothy ("the boss") was about to extend the hide a bed (lots of places to hide in there) I had a funny feeling and said STOP!

Got on my knees and shined a flashlight up and under, "Cy" had wrapped himself around 2 metal bars, next to some springs. Had Dorothy completely extended the bed, the 2 steel bars would have scissored little Cy in half.

Look down at your feet while walking, eyeball the entire door jam before closing the door, open and close drawers very gingerly, if a snake were curled up under that little piece of wood, just behind the drawer, and you were to slam it shut, it could be a devastating result.

Its an awful feeling, I think we have all been there, most of the time there is a happy ending, (well define happy) Last week I DESTROYED a chair to get my Pueblan milk snake out of it. I swear that snake loves to torture us! Last time before that, we had began unloading the contents of the house out onto the lawn!!

Regards,
Wayne

[Snake lover 3-25]

OMG!!!!!! mine gets lost in the chairs all the time but our chairs have open bottoms so i can just fish her out...

[anji1971]

My worst nightmare is an escapee! I've been very lucky so far, even with a few careless events. I left the lid off when I had my first garter, and was fortunate that she only travelled as far as the nearest desk lamp to sun herself.
I also learned that those ExoTerra terrariums have vent holes large enough for young ones to slither through, when I discovered a month-old Deejay on top of, rather than inside of, her tank!
Hope you find your little MIA snake soon..........it's always a big worry.

[LyrisFlame]

So I'm walking around in my bedroom and I happen to glance down at the snake tank and to my utter confusion the snake is back inside... somehow.

I mean... I took that tank APART making sure he wasn't in it. If he was hiding in the plants or the petco log we got him, he certainly would have darted out the second I started messing with them. There was no snake. Now there is definitely a snake.



I have NO IDEA what is going on, but that's okay. He's in the tank now, where I can see him, and I'm just going to leave it at that.

His new name, btw, is Rick "Houdini" James. lol.

[Snake lover 3-25]

congrats!!!!!

btw that happens to me all the time... read tricks...

was he in the closed tank or the open tank???

[infernalis]

And you didnt even have to shred up your furniture...

Congrats

[anji1971]

Glad to hear he's back!

[LyrisFlame]

congrats!!!!!

btw that happens to me all the time... read tricks...

was he in the closed tank or the open tank???

Apparently, both. I think the tank sat open for several hours - possibly all night.

But he disappeared again just now, so I checked the log over one more time. My boyfriend has been telling me there's a hollow part in it that the snake can crawl into, but I didn't believe him because I couldn't see any holes or anything. But, turns out, he was right! Theres a tiny, baby snake sized hole just behind a ledge which I assume leads into his new secret chamber. Those petco people are evil geniuses!

So now the snake is going to go all "angsty teenager" on me and spend all of his time in his room and not eat his dinner. Great. lol