>>I have enjoyed all the tales of all your missing snakes and will continue to search for mine with all the advice you all have given me. Keep them coming.



Dougs on the right track with the scenting of the mice.

I once had and escaped red milk snake loose for about a week in the garage. It escaped out of my rack, which was right in front of the garage side door with a 1" gap under it. It had been raining a lot so I thought it still might be in the garage somewhere. I looked high and low for it, but no luck. I had a few baited hides with f/t mice, but no luck. I was unthawing about 20 mice in warm water one evening and thought, I'll give it one more shot, I took a piece of drift wood and dip one end in the water I was soaking the mice in, and then stuck it in a small paper bag and laid it on the floor right at the base of the rack. The next morning I pick up the bag and dump the wood out, and here comes the milk sliding out right behind the wood. ALLRIGHT!!!!!!MADE MY DAY!!!!!

I bet, the smell of the mice unthawing woke him up and got him moving. Then when he found the bag with the drift wood, which was a natural hide to him, decided to hang around trying to find the food. Wrap the bag snug around the wood to make the snake feel secure when he enters.

Good Luck;

Bob








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