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My baby cali king has escaped. He was a wc(caught at an apartment and when the residents threatened to kill the snake the person brought it to where I work and I took him home) and he was about 11" at the time he escaped (yesterday).
I had gotten into a fight with my younger brother and strongly believe my brother released him when I went to work...but I can't really prove it and maybe I'm just being a cranky sibling.
Either way, I can't find him in my bedroom (not surprising, it's like trying to find a bendy pencil that moves) and I'm wondering about his chances of making it. He's native to where I live (we find kingsnakes in the yard on a regular basis) and when he escaped he hadn't eaten in about two weeks, due to me being out of state and his refusal to eat when the snakesitter tried feeding him.

He should have a fairly good chance of surviving if I never do find him, right?

Any tricks I should try to entice him where I can catch him again, or should I just let him fade into the mouse-infested yonder?

Thanks for any responses,
~jenny
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1.2 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, and Periscope)
0.0.1 california kingsnake (Tetris)
0.2 rescue chinese water dragons
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
1.0 gerbil (Yerbul)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
1.1 betta fishes (Vicious and Killer)
2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
2.0 horses (Buddy and Sam)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
1.25 chickens (Ugly the rooster and his harem)

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire

He should have a fairly good chance of surviving if I never do find him, right?

At that size he will most likely dehydrate in a short time. Unless he got outside where he can acess water.

i know one way that has worked for some is to set up a heat lamp in a spot in the room and to dust some flour around on the floor, that way you can see its tracks,i have also seen some traps that people have made for wild snakes out of 2 liter soda bottles with a f/t mouse inside but i dont know exactly how they are made and if the snake wasnt eating be4 it probably wont be attracted to it anyway. honestly though, the snake probably will have a pretty good chance in the wild, seeing as how it was w/c anyway. luckily the only two snakes i have every lost without finding were w/c natives so i didnt worry to badly about them, knowing they are just back to where they came from.
good luck though, hope i was of some help.

After about a week get a flashlight and check the bathrooms at night. They tend to start looking for water and can sense where its coming from.

But forst i would check with your brother since you don't know if he let it go outside or inside or if it escaped by itself.

LMAO...sorry bluerosy, I'm just yanking your chain. I hope I'm not out of line or it isn't too soon or in bad taste..
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Richard Evans

no not THAT one

@#%^^_)&^$! ^&^8B**% $#@~! **&^ **(&

LOL!

"LMAO...sorry bluerosy, I'm just yanking your chain. I hope I'm not out of line or it isn't too soon or in bad taste..
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Richard Evans "

I don't think the Lord is directing yours steps on this thread...

sigh...I shouldn't have listened...Thank the Lord I'm gonna ride my wife's coattails into heaven..LOL. She's an angel
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Richard Evans

no not THAT one

No friggin message....DUH

I gotta get a life..sheesh
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Richard Evans

no not THAT one

It's also extremely possible he can get outside - I find mice and lizards in here all the time, so I figure if they can get in, he can get out. It's been raining lately as well, so there's still water outside. I'll definately check the bathrooms though, and let everyone else know to keep an eye out.

I've asked my brother and he denies having anything to do with it, but he's got that look on his face that means he's either not telling the truth or holding something back.

Thanks for your help!

~jenny
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1.2 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, and Periscope)
0.0.1 california kingsnake (Tetris)
0.2 rescue chinese water dragons
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
1.0 gerbil (Yerbul)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
1.1 betta fishes (Vicious and Killer)
2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
2.0 horses (Buddy and Sam)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
1.25 chickens (Ugly the rooster and his harem)

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire

does your brother have any pets or things he does not need like his wallet?

"hey sis have you seen my wallet?"

" No I have not. At least not since my snake came up missing. Wierd huh?"

That would be the plan. He's a big internet gamer, so I figure he doesn't really need to access the internet...

"Where'd my wireless network card go?"
"I dono, aren't those things real good at escaping? It might have slithered away under the bed. Did you check under the bed?"

~jenny
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1.2 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, and Periscope)
0.0.1 california kingsnake (Tetris)
0.2 rescue chinese water dragons
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
1.0 gerbil (Yerbul)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
1.1 betta fishes (Vicious and Killer)
2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
2.0 horses (Buddy and Sam)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
1.25 chickens (Ugly the rooster and his harem)

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire

I don't know your brother - but I would suspect if anything, it was accidental. He went in to look at it or something and it got away from him. If he had anything to do with it.
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3.3.5 L. getula californiae
1.0 L. getula nigrita
1.0 Boa constrictor constrictor (suriname, fostering/rescue)
2.1.2 Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata

I have had my king escape also and i ended up finding him in a small pocket of my knapsack in the closet. Also I lost a corn very early and i ended up seeing it making a dash for the fridge about 3 weeks later. This was a baby who had never eaten a single meal and although dehydrated made it.
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2.2 Columbian common boas (Zeus, Athena, Aphodite, Hades)
1.1 Corn snakes (Appolo, Boreas)
0.1 King snake tri striped cal morph (Helios)

When my balls escape (they are ridiculously good at escaping) I usually find them in places like that. Last time I almost took my baby ball to class with me, she was hiding in my backpack.

I think FunkyRes might be right, it could have been an accident, I just know that my brother's not telling the truth about something (it's that trying-too-hard-to-look-innocent-look that really bad liars always have). If it was an accident, it was an accident, those happen all the time, but since he denies everything I still don't know if the snake escaped inside or if he was lost outside or what happened.

Every other night I usually have fuzzies sitting next to a heatlamp for my water dragons (keeps 'em warm and alive until the dragons wake up in the morning and will eat 'em), so hopefully that'll entice tetris for a visit.

~jenny
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1.2 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, and Periscope)
0.0.1 california kingsnake (Tetris)
0.2 rescue chinese water dragons
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
1.0 gerbil (Yerbul)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
1.1 betta fishes (Vicious and Killer)
2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
2.0 horses (Buddy and Sam)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
1.25 chickens (Ugly the rooster and his harem)

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire

i also found a yearling corn in a zipper pocket of my nylon overnight bag,a lil freaky feeling a snake when packing for the morning drive ROFHAFHA rolling on floor having a friggin heart attack LOL

Last year I had a 6 day old hatchling escape. he had not yet eaten for the first time. I have two cats and I lived in a 4th story Boston apartment. He was found 2 1/2 months later in the basement of the building conected to mine. He was returned to me and doing perfect. Looked like he never left .

Over the years I have had a handfull of hatchlings escape and I have almost always found them. Just keep your eye out, and look around under EVERYTHING.

Here he is 2 weeks after his adventure with city life.

One of my banana kings escaped.
After 6 months in michigan I figured I'd never see her again.
I went out to the garage (Mind you, it's an unheated unattached outbuilding, it was well below freezing inside.) I saw something familiar out of the corner of my eye.
She was a yearling at best, and refused food for a month before this.
I saw her on a shop rag on the cement floor in the corner.
Took her inside and warmed her with my hands.
She was stiff but was alive and responded to being picked up.
I put a little water in the bathtub and let her drink/hang out in there for 15 minutes or so, and she was her normal self again.
She ate a pinkie immediately, and has never turned down a hot meal since.
She has also never even looked remotely interested in escape since!!!
Since then, I have upgraded her cage and made it escape proof, but at no time has she ever appear interested in getting out without he picking her up........