Ok, so I messed up Saturday morning while changing out my blue beauty's water and left the top off of his cage for a whole 3 minutes and he got out. He's in a 55 gal aquarium and he's about 4 feet long right now. Normally, he's very content to just hang out while I do this, but he must've been sizing up the situation and climbed up his branches and hauled butt in no time flat while I had my back turned. My snake room is actually my garage and his cage is in the far back right corner, up on a counter. I figured, how far could he have possibly gone in such a short time, right? Well I looked for a good two hours in every little nook and cranny I thought he could've got into. No luck. Just vanished into thin air. Also in my snake room/garage, there is a small closet in the far, front left corner. About as far away as you can get from his cage in my 2.5 car garage. So, after giving up and just hoping to catch him out in the open in the future, I had some lunch and then went to the movies with my wife and daughter. When we got back, I decided to go check the closet, again, and lo and behold, there he is, on the second shelf up just sitting there staring at me. The really crazy thing about this is that on two other occasions, I have made stupid mistakes that led to other rat snakes (a big male yellow as well as a very large female tiger) getting out and they have all ended up in the same closet! There are a million places in that garage they could go (under/behind other cages, under/behind washer/dryer/refrigerator, etc.) and they all end up in this one closet. Very weird, but if there are ever any future escapes, I will know just where to look.

PS - pics are from about a year ago when I first got him - he's easily doubled in size.

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• Funny story about escapes... - BillyBoy, Tue Jul 1 12:19:36 2008
• RE: Funny story about escapes... - Trolligans, Tue Jul 1 14:46:45 2008
• RE: Funny story about escapes... - BillyBoy, Tue Jul 1 15:08:40 2008
• RE: Funny story about escapes... - DMong, Tue Jul 1 21:58:28 2008
• RE: Funny story about escapes... - snakemaster24, Tue Jul 1 22:52:19 2008
• RE: Funny story about escapes... - DMong, Wed Jul 2 00:11:25 2008
• I had a snake loose for over 7 years... - FRoberts, Wed Jul 2 14:49:24 2008
• RE: I had a snake loose for over 7 years... - Brewster320, Wed Jul 2 18:52:59 2008
• not always... - FRoberts, Wed Jul 2 19:06:51 2008
• RE: not always... - jhnscrg, Thu Jul 3 19:50:46 2008
• =( n/p - FRoberts, Thu Jul 3 20:07:08 2008
• RE: I had a snake loose for over 7 years... - DMong, Wed Jul 2 23:22:23 2008
• DMong... - FRoberts, Thu Jul 3 11:07:14 2008
• absolutely!......n/p - DMong, Sat Jul 5 07:47:01 2008
• RE: Funny story about escapes... - Camby, Wed Jul 2 08:48:54 2008
• RE: Funny story about escapes... - DannyBoy9, Wed Jul 2 19:18:30 2008
• RE: Funny story about escapes... - Chris_Harper2, Thu Jul 3 12:07:20 2008