Today's a good day for this too... Jester is one of my cal kings... he's escaped three times.... and the last time he escaped was a week or two ago, and today I found him!

His first escape, he was a big yearling or so, I fed him but didn't put the lid back on properly, he snuck out, but didn't want to be lonely, so he crawled into bed with hubby and I. It's 4 am, and I suddenly realize that hubby has gone all cold and scaly..... the snake was trying to get in between us! Talk about a WAKE UP CAll

Second time he escaped, we didn't even know he was gone... returned from work, and glance into the bathroom, there he is hanging half out of the toilet bowl.

This last time he escaped from our escape proof cage.... lid was still locked.... but he was certainly OUT of the cage. Today I was cleaning the mouse cages, reached into my stack of clean bins and was freaked to feel a snake (I was looking the other way). Think I woke a few neighbors.

Had my AZ mountain king escape once, found her camped out on top of the mouse cages. Rosy Boa escaped and found it when it crawled out of a ceiling vent (how the HECK did he get up ThERE). Found my Jungle Carpet Python three different times (she was in an unsecured cage, but until she suddenly started escaping (a year after I got her) she never tried to escape. When she DID escape, she never went far.... found her on a heating pad (I'd moved the cage, but not the pad) once, crawling up my leg once, and another time found her when I was looking for a DVD.

I've been working on keeping the cages I have more secure, but it always seems theres some snake wandering loose. Right now I only have one snake on the loose, and as it's a "Little" (less than a year old) I don't expect to see it again. "Big" snakes always turn up, little ones never do. If she doesn't snow up, that will be the fourth baby snake I'll have lost in 3 years. In her case the lid had a manufacturers defect in it, but this wasn't noticed until the snake went missing. (ARGH).
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~Sasheena

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