Good question. Getting her back into the cage usually isn’t a big deal, but it has never been as smooth as getting her in the tub. I was particularly nervous about that this week because I wanted to soak her, but I had just had surgery. I’m on lifting restrictions for the next few weeks so I wasn’t looking to have to muscle her into her cage. I was also concern because she appears to be gravid and her behavior isn’t as predictable as normal. I didn’t want to try to lift her from the tub to her cage. She resists that approach and I was not in position to lift a large green. I did lift her front half from the soak tub onto the floor. Gravity helped along so it wasn’t a big lift. She shifted the rest of her weight and moved onto the floor. I allowed her to cruise around the snake room while I set up a ramp to get her back into her cage. Her cage door is about 2 feet off the floor so I placed a large Action Packer tub below the cage door. I also place an old hide box near the Action Packer. The hide box is about half the height of the action packer. This created a two step platform for her to crawl up. She moved from across the room to check out the Action Packer. She has spent a lot of time in that old Action Packer and seems to consider it her burrow. I hate to say this here, but she loves that thing. If I leave the top open she’ll crawl in by herself. This time the cover wasn’t open so she investigated any chance to get inside. She always checks this out. Once she was top she could sense her nearby cage door and crawled from the top of the Action packer right into her cage. This all took about 10 minutes.

FYI – I have a herper friend right down the street if there were problems. He was “on call” if things didn’t work out and I needed help.

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