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I woke up at 4am this morning to see that my cat had climbed onto my snake racks and knocked out the box with my apricot pueblan male in it, I looked high and low and I could not find him.I was devastated, I know the cat did not eat him, and that he has escaped down a hole or some place, he was my FAVORITE of all my snakes and don't think he can ever be replaced! he is a great snake, his colors and marks are even and bright, and he was chunky and I was proud of him.I am furious with the cat, and It will take me a while to forgive him.

I know my chances of finding him are slim, and I know eventually i will want another just like him, yet i feel he is irreplacable.

yours sadly

P

Don't give up bro...last year I bought several snakes for a customer overseas and had to hold them for awhile. One of them was a very nice hypo hondo I got from Don Shores, welll the little bugger got out and I figured he was gone for good. I found another online and bought it for a replacement.
4 months later my fiance was outside and she screamed for me to come quick, low and behold at 11pm at night was a Hypo honduran with some good growth on it cruising by my poarch.
Several years earlier I lost a 50/50 cal king just to have it slither across my bare foot while I was on the phone 3 months later. The little guy almost got launched. LOL

thankyou so much for your support, It would be great if he showed up one day i am glad you got your snakes back, that sounds like a great experience.

I recently lost one of my Hypo Het. Amel Hondurans (pictured). I searched the entire house every night for two weeks with no luck. I set up traps, laid down tape with no sign of her anywhere. About six weeks later, I had worked late and on my way home, about 11pm, my girlfriend called me saying that she found my snake and to hurry home because it was biting her repeatedly!
I am very fortunate to have a girlfriend that will pick up a snake and let it bite her...knowing how important it is to me!

Good luck in your search.

Thankyou so very much, I was very pleased to hear the words of encouragement today, I felt that it could have been avoided, just when you think everything is secure and under control, something always catches us off guard, I will make sure to keep my eyes open! and I will thoroughly search tonite, I do hope he shows up, he is such a beauty.

Good luck finding this guy. I have been lucky enough to find all adult snakes that have escaped. Not so lucky with hatchlings, however. Each time I have found them it has been at night, so keep walking around the house at night and you may get lucky.

good luck!

Dave
DNS Reptiles

I will thankyou Dave

That very same thing happened with a snake that I had gotten. I had waited for a long time for this snake, and my wifes cat did the dirty deed while we were at town. Needless to say, the cat is no longer a part of our family, and there wont be any more in this household!
Brian

>>I woke up at 4am this morning to see that my cat had climbed onto my snake racks and knocked out the box with my apricot pueblan male in it, I looked high and low and I could not find him.I was devastated, I know the cat did not eat him, and that he has escaped down a hole or some place, he was my FAVORITE of all my snakes and don't think he can ever be replaced! he is a great snake, his colors and marks are even and bright, and he was chunky and I was proud of him.I am furious with the cat, and It will take me a while to forgive him.
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>>I know my chances of finding him are slim, and I know eventually i will want another just like him, yet i feel he is irreplacable.
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>>yours sadly
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>>P
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Brian

Posted by: Hotshot at Wed May 10 19:56:53 2006 [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ]

That very same thing happened with a snake that I had gotten. I had waited for a long time for this snake, and my wifes cat did the dirty deed while we were at town. Needless to say, the cat is no longer a part of our family, and there wont be any more in this household!
Brian

Its not the cats fault they dont do it out of malice. People should give some thought to getting snakes if their cat can get to them. I dont have a cat because wouldnt risk it .

I lost a honduran female...lost is a strange word for this...what I really mean is she got out of the Alcatraz of containers. A clipped sweater box, no ledges for pushing, bunjee chorded, with a wood plank ontop beneath the bunjee's to privide a more unnecessarily rigid lid. Preparing for a benefit concert, my father and I were in the middle of playing "Brown Eye'd Girl," and I am stopped mid solo (harmonica). I am pissed, but then find out it was for a good cause. One of my snakes escaped...or resurfaced? I thought for a sec it was my lost female, but couldn't be...it had been 8 months...but I was wrong! After 8 months, my snake resurfaced.

Lay some places for your snake to go into, lay out waterbowls, mabey even a mouse or two sometimes. Look in all the heated places in your house. Look all over. My snake must have hibernated in my basement, and gotten water from a leaking sink, it was about 4 feet when I found it, now is almost 5 and a half and may be gravid. Your snake may turn up. The size of it worries me (I think you said it was young) but if you block exits, your chances are good that it will resurface, they often do. I've heard stories of this in apartment buildings...over 3 years... GOOD LUCK.

-Sean
ps: I may have repeated some things previously said; this is because I didn't read all the posts.

thankyou, he is about 15 inches long, I have looked for him, I gave up looking for now, I imagine one day he will just reappear 3 times as big as he was when he disappeared.I live in an apartment building in Brooklyn, NYC and there are many places for snakes to escape to.I did not get chance to announce to my neighbors that a snake is loose in the building, I don't want to cause widespread panic, have you any idea how New Yorkers can be...they will have the cops, fire department crawling all over the place thinking theres a big bad snake on the loose, there are several places he could be, since it happened in my bedroom I imagine he went down under the floorboards, and dont know if he is big enough to crawl out, I don't feel as bad about it, I am sure he is having great time, he will find mice to eat, its pretty moist around here too so he won't die he will find water. I had also lost a garter snake earlier, maybe they will find each other and fall in love and share stories of their escape to freedom, or closest to freedom anyhow.

I thankyou all for your replies, it helped me a lot to feel better about this. I am expecting a delivery today, and in it will be 4 new pueblans, 2 apricot and two regulars, pairs. I will make sure to take care of them, the cat is BANNED from being in my bedroom area...funny...he seems to know why he is on my bad list right now.

How are you so sure the cat didn't eat it?

Walt

IT WAS STRANGE BECAUSE the cat was asleep in my bedroom where I also keep the snakes,he must have woke up and looked for mischief and caused the event, what was interesting was that I must have woken not too long after this had occured, its amazing that even when we sleep our senses are alert and tell us when something isn't right. I have had my cat for a long time and he is very gentle, just very very curious, I know he would not want to eat the snake, and if he had i dont think he would have eaten the whole thing,he would have saved a piece for me to share! lol there would have been some evidence. the cat actually found one of my garter snakes that had gotten away before, so he may have done a 'wrong' but he also did a 'right', I have a feeling the milksnake will show up one day and i am sure the cat will be the one to alert me.I also have mice that I breed to feed my snakes, and the cat loves them too, he has been close to them and has never tried to attack them or anything, BTW he is a SPHYNX he is hairless like a snake, and they are unlike many other cats, they are very smart animals.
Since this happend I have included my cat in the handling of my snakes to allow him to see and not be so CURIOUS, It seems to be working and he does not linger around the cages too long anymore, That could be very helpful to other snake people with other animals, maybe including them in your hobby helps.