Was feeding tonight and left a cage door partially unlatched. The door was one side of a boaphile 421 townhouse. With divider in so only one side affected. The door has one turn latch and one key lock. I left the turn latch undone and the key in the other latch. Coincidentally, the key latch on that door does not have a lot of friction to make it turn. And add in another coincident, the snake decided to shed in the couple of hours I was away and while crawling over stuff to help shed turned the key latch and bang, the door fell open. I came home to find a door open and no snake in the cage. I told the kids to lock up the cat and started looking underneath stuff. Something moving caught my eye and it was the escaped snake, she was along side a tub in the tub rack just a couple of feet from the escaped cage. So, very luckily, I found her right away. And to make the stress level worse, it was Dottie, my 2004 Hypo female from Mike lockwood. Dottie is fine and none the worse for her grand adventure, she'll have a grand tale to tell her kids.
See, even us "experienced" keepers have escapes!!
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Thanks,
Dave Colling
www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com
0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)
LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
24.36 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders 
lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats 
