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About a month ago, a female cal king got loose.
She is this locality, collected about a mile from my home.

I just looked at my hatchling rack - and almost all the tubs were scewed, they had been pushed around. Can't blame the cats - many of the tubs are out of their reach.

I checked all the tubs to see if any had figured out how to get out, but they all are accounted for.

Only thing I can think of - this loose Cal King was trying to have baby snake for dinner. I wonder where she is hiding - I do want to find her. I was afraid she got under the house - but I now think she's lurking about somewhere.
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11.14 L. getula californiae (Cal. King)
2.3 L. getula nigrita (MBK)
1.0 L. getula floridana (Brooksi)
1.1 Pantherophis guttatus guttatus (Corn)
0.1 Pituophis catenifer catenifer (Pacific gopher)
0.1 Heterodon nasicus nasicus (W Hognose)
4.2.14 Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata - (Cal. Alligator Lizard)

I had my juvie corn get loose and baited him back. I took a small cardboard box and cut about a 3 inch hole in one side. I then made a funnel out of the back cover of a magazine and cut off the small end to about a 1 inch diameter and put it in the box. I folded over the big end and taped it to the box. I put a water dish, bedding, and a f/t mouse in the box. Next morning he was waiting. Of course, you would adjust the size of the box, funnel, etc. I have also seen this done by cutting off the top of a 2 liter coke bottle and inverting it into the bottle. Good luck.

if you think that your snake is trying to eat set up a cage with a mouse in it and make a funnel in the middle of the top.

the smell would atract her andif she gets in it she probly wont be able to get out . also id give her somplace to hide next to the mouse cage in case she cant get in. maybe even sprinkle flour around so you know if she ckecked it out and left
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jake

my addiction:
0.2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
0.1 amelenistic corn snake (maizy)
0.1 blizzard corn (blizz)
1.0 albino cal king (zeus)
0.0.1 wc garter (zim)
hybrid breeders association
hybrid haven

She was about 18 inches and eating large f/t fuzzies.
I'm going to put one in a coke bottle and also put a hide against the wall - ExoTerra Reptile Den (snakes love them).

She got loose when I was building my rack - which I originally tried to do lidless. 3 got out, two recovered - the rack is not lidless now ...
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11.14 L. getula californiae (Cal. King)
2.3 L. getula nigrita (MBK)
1.0 L. getula floridana (Brooksi)
1.1 Pantherophis guttatus guttatus (Corn)
0.1 Pituophis catenifer catenifer (Pacific gopher)
0.1 Heterodon nasicus nasicus (W Hognose)
4.2.14 Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata - (Cal. Alligator Lizard)

I had a yearling hondo escape and used the upside down tape routine. It worked great, I caught the snake the day after I put the tape out (2 days after the escape). She's had a scale pulled off when I removed the tape, but it's better then losing the snake.
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