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So a few weeks ago, I showed one of my juvie female red milksnakes to my nephew. Afterward I just sat the lid on top of the container, hugged him goodbye, turned around......snakes gone!!!!! GRRRR

Today, went to check if my male juvie red milksnake had shed yet so I could feed him. He had so I sat the lid on top of the container.....(are ya seeing a pattern here?).....turned to get the pinky out of the warm water. When I turned back.......snakes gone!!!!! Within three weeks, TWO of my favorite snakes are loose in my house!!!! UNDER MY CARPET no doubt!!!!

Oh well.....jus tho't I'd flaunt my reptile keeping prowess!!!!

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The carpet will prevent you from seeing them so if they're not already smashed you may roll up the carpet & check. Hopefully they'll turn up. Don't worry I had that happen w/ a mole king. little snakes seem to sprint out open lids.

I own 93 snakes and have never lost one that I haven't found. Just keep looking. A rubbermaid with a live food item works wonders.

tom
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You must be in the "pattern" that I am!
Last weekend I bought a pair of corns,set them up in cages and at the first feeding I'm in my snake room with the lid off the cage and the phone rings,I figure I can leave the lid off and answer it after all it's only in the next room and I will be right back.So, I get involved in a conversation with a friend of mine and totally forget that I was in the middle of feeding snakes and go on to something else after I hang up the phone.A few hours later I go into the snake room to check up on things and see the lid off! Then it hits me that I was feeding.I look in the cage and find one corn.Oh no!And I only had them 2 days!
So, I'm standing there scratcing my head and hear a slight rustle in the closet,I open the door and there is my escaped corn laying in the corner.Snake found,no problam right? Well the very next day I was filling the water bowl in my blonde trans pecos cage,I get one cage clip on and the wife yells from the bedroom "Mike come here,hurry"so I go over there and scoop up a huge hobo spider from the floor and throw it outside.A few hours later I go into the snake room to shut off the lights and step right on my blond sub-oc!Back in the cage it goes and I put the other cage clip on.I'm standing there thinking that I almost lost two great snakes in as many days!My new rule is:When in the snake room there will be NO distaractions.I don't answer the phone,the door,or any one who my be calling out for me, period!
I told the wife and kids that if anyone calls out for me while I'm in the snake room,they had better be barfing up a lung to need me that bad!