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I've just discovered my snake is not in her cage. She could have been out and about for 2 days. I thought she was going to shed because she usually buries herself in the substrate and then comes out when she's going to shed. She did not come back out so I tried to find her, she's not in her cage!!! Lectures about getting better lid are not needed right now, i just need to find her!!

Where are some likely places she will be? What can I do to entice her to come out?

Please, please help me!!!

What can I do to entice her to come out?

I 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 alot 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'd 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 bag. 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!!!!!

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R.BICHLER

Nice outcome! And just like you had planned.

I've been darn lucky on more than a few occasions in capturing escapees, but none of them by baiting.

One of my best was a baby lyre snake that escaped. I had just moved out of my parents house and was living in an apartment at the time. A week later someone down the hall reported seeing a snake crawling along the hallway. This hallway goes past an elevator and out to stairs leasing down to a courtyard with lots of trees and shrubs and a small hillside. I thought for sure the snake was gone.

2 weeks later I was bringing up groceries in the elevator, and when the door opened, I caught a glimpse of movement between the elevator door and the elevator, and I thought it was an alligator lizard tail. I jammed my hand in there and grabbed what turned out to be the lyre snake. In a freakin elevator.

Hi my sons corn got out last friday night, i turned the house upside down, not my idea of spring cleaning. I gave up hope at about 7pm on saturday eve. I placed a hide with pinkies in the middle of the room and pumped up the heating, I also placed a time lapse camcorder so as to see where the snake went if it came out. By about 1130pm i was going to turn in so i went to lock the front door and draw the door curtain, There she was hanging fron the door hinges.
Goood luck in the hunt.
all the best gary (UK)

The only times I have ever found my escaped snakes was by not looking for them. Just keep your eyes peeled and always pay attention to whatever movement you catch out of the corner of your eye. One time while I was doing maintenance over by the feeder bins, I happened to see my speckled king raise her head while she was moseying against the wall. It was one of those cases where had I been at that spot 5 seconds sooner or 5 seconds later, I would have totally missed her.
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chickabowwow

What kind of snake? Don't forget to look up as mentioned on curtain rods, draperies. Look around the windows, in any window a/c units. Setting out a bowl of water and a scented hide are good ideas, put them in corners and sprinkle some flour around it to see if any movement is captured in the dust, sometimes they get away, sometimes you find them close to their "homes". How long have you had it?
Todd Hughes

You forgot the best and simplist trap. Use a sticky trap/glue board, they are make to catch mice, but they catch snakes great.

Once you learn how, getting snakes and even geckos off these traps is very very easy, and does not harm them.

just use liquid soap, spread it on the glue board, and off comes the reptiles. Rinse the soap off and the board is good to go again. Cheers

Ahhhh- this thread is just in time.

I got back from an out of town trip last night, checked on my snakes, and awoke to my baby splendida missing- DAMN.

Good advice here- not really thrilled about our much larger house now, though... 8-D

//Todd

P.S. This is him in case you guys spot him before I do!

Nevermind- found the little bugger at about midnight last night, heading in the direction of one of the pinkies I left out for him...

Bottomless pits- gotta love 'em!

//Todd