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So Last week i had a snake escape on me, it was my beautiful Chris Garcia MSP. My girl friends cats, Kaya and Stella, are like hunting dogs when it comes to an escaped snake (or loose cricket) then find the animal and alert me with out harming it, i think they know that the snakes are important to me so they dont kill. so on saturday night i went to feed my Thayeri. i am opening each container and cleaning and handleing as usual. everything looked great, nice and hungry. i picked up the container that houses my beautiful "classic" 05 female leonis from Dan V, lift up her hide box and nothing, look under the paper and nothing. following this a string of swears came flowing, my girl freind asked what was wrong i told her, and we procceeded to pull apart the down stairs of the apartment looking under book shelves the tortoise enclosure, coffee table, everything and anything that i could fathem that she might be in or under, and nothing, feeling defeated after a few hours of pacing around double checking things, i decided that tomorrow i would set up some soda bottle snake traps in hopes that the smell of a pinky may grab her attention.

i wake up on sunday and head to the store to get some bottles of seltzer water to pour out, drink, and make traps. my girlfriend and i spent the day doing a deep clean on the apartment, so later in the day my cats are acting really funny around my back pack. and stella puts her paw in the side pocket and pulls out the missing girl, claws in i might add. i check the girl out and she looked good. So what i am guessing is that i took the girl with me to the super market, the deli for breakfast, and back home again. i am sure she had one cold crazy ride, but she is back in her container happy and warm, and now i know i am ordering my rack system a the end of the week

hope you liked the story

Adam
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3.5 THAYERI
1.2 SPLENDIDA
1.3 ALTERNA
0.0.1 HOLD BACK RUNT ALBINO CORN
0.1.1 pyxie
0.0.2 horned frogs
0.0.1 MEXICAN RED KNEE
1.0 CHILEAN ROSE HAIR

Loved the story, and that's one Kool Kat that Stella girl!
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Mike

Yeah Mike, she is a good little hunter, she defiantly got a nice big treat of tuna flakes that night

Adam
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3.5 THAYERI
1.2 SPLENDIDA
1.3 ALTERNA
0.0.1 HOLD BACK RUNT ALBINO CORN
0.1.1 pyxie
0.0.2 horned frogs
0.0.1 MEXICAN RED KNEE
1.0 CHILEAN ROSE HAIR

Wow! That is quite the story! Glad to hear that you found her, and that she didn't slip out while you were out and about.
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Slipstream Serpents

My Reptile Family:
1.1.0 Leopard Geckos (Booger, Gimp)
1.0.0 Veiled Chameleon (Lucutis)
0.0.1 Quince Monitor (Pollux)
1.2.0 Thayeri Kingsnakes (Korben, Leeloo, Artax)
2.2.0 California Kingsnakes (Beetlejuice, Kang, Maraca, Kodos)
1.1.0 Bullsnakes (Hawker, Socata)

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3.5 THAYERI
1.2 SPLENDIDA
1.3 ALTERNA
0.0.1 HOLD BACK RUNT ALBINO CORN
0.1.1 pyxie
0.0.2 horned frogs
0.0.1 MEXICAN RED KNEE
1.0 CHILEAN ROSE HAIR

That is a cool story, thank you for sharing it.
I have an escapee story. I have this mexican black female that is huge and Houdini. She has escaped everything she has ever been in. I have even went as far as to put bricks on her tote just to try and stop her. She has pushed off 6 bricks to my amazment. she got out in Nov. 2004 and I figured I would never see her again, because I found a pipe going through the brick into the laundry room and to the hot water heater pan that holds the water heater. When they built the house they didn't put a screen over it, so I just knew she had found it and went out to freedom. I live on 26 acres total and all but about 4 acres is heavily wooded. so I knew there was no hope.
The following May I was out back of the house brushing my horse and something caught my attetion and it was her crawling out the woods and on to the patio, at first I thought it was a black racer since they are so common here in Mississippi but I went and caught her and to my amazment it was her and she was fat and fine. After a deparasite regime she was back in the tote and since has not left again. Maybe she decided it is much easier to get food this way. She is a chow hound.
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Michelle

what are the chances of that happening, pretty cool, i wonder if she saw you and it clicked that "Michelle = Food" so she came over to see you. definatly neat

adam
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3.5 THAYERI
1.2 SPLENDIDA
1.3 ALTERNA
0.0.1 HOLD BACK RUNT ALBINO CORN
0.1.1 pyxie
0.0.2 horned frogs
0.0.1 MEXICAN RED KNEE
1.0 CHILEAN ROSE HAIR

Yes, I trully beleive she came home for food, she realized it was much harder out there living off the land and decided it just wasn't for her.
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Michelle

Whoa! That is some story too!! I also wouldn't have any hope of finding her with all that wooded land. That is just so amazing that she came right out. Cool story!
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Slipstream Serpents

My Reptile Family:
1.1.0 Leopard Geckos (Booger, Gimp)
1.0.0 Veiled Chameleon (Lucutis)
0.0.1 Quince Monitor (Pollux)
1.2.0 Thayeri Kingsnakes (Korben, Leeloo, Artax)
2.2.0 California Kingsnakes (Beetlejuice, Kang, Maraca, Kodos)
1.1.0 Bullsnakes (Hawker, Socata)