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if so, did u managed to find it twice? is it likely for them to go to the same spot they escaped to? lol

thanx
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"Isn't it funny you hear a phone ring and it could be anybody, but a ringing phone has to be answered doesn't it?"

After your first escape, it's very important to take a GOOD look at your enclosure and attempt to fix any possible escape route. There is no reason that a snake should be able to find its way out a second time...but unfortunately, due to human error, it happens.

~Kristine

After a snake finds an escape route it will keep going through it. Id suggest putting the cage in a bigger cage to see if it gets out.

no no i did not lose it again, i'm just wondering if it has happened to any of you here...
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"Isn't it funny you hear a phone ring and it could be anybody, but a ringing phone has to be answered doesn't it?"

you provide me with endless entertainment...

keep lookin, it's all luck.

What type of lid did you pick out of the two you showed earlier?

If you picked the cheaper of the two (the screen, not the black bars), then, I don't know if you know this already, but check the rear corners of them. The designers of these lids seem to take for granted that you are going to have something directly in the tank that will need to be plugged in, and thus they have small holes in the back to allow the wire through. If this is the lid you have, and the hole is not covered, and the tank is shallow or there is something near it for the snake to climb, I have no doubt a baby could pass through it.

Good luck, hope this helps.
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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
J.R.R. Tolkien

np

I named one of my corns "Houdini" because he was so adept at escaping. The first time, it was him and Ziggy together. They were in a small cage in the living-room, and were still under a year old. I recovered Ziggy about ten days later, in the basement. She went through the bars of a mouse cage and pigged out, thus trapping herself. I could hardly believe that she'd taken a mouse so large, it was about twice her girth. Houdini (then named "Neon", he's an amelanistic) was gone for about six weeks, and turned up laying along the top edge of a baseboard behind the stereo (the cat told me he was there).

The second time, it was my own fault for failing to secure the lid of the cage properly. He and Ziggy were sharing a cage with four young black rat snakes (still upstairs), and all except Ziggy fled the coop. I recaptured all the blacks within less than two hours, but Houdini (still named Neon) was a.w.o.l. for about ten days. He turned up coiled around the root-base of a large houseplant.

About a year later he was living alone, and escaped in the critter-room (I'd moved them out of the living-room). I recovered him the same day, behind a cardboard box alongside a wall. He now acquired his new, and permanent name.

A few months later, all of them were in brumation, and Ziggy was sharing a brumation box with Houdini. Wouldn't you know it? he found a way out and again took Ziggy with him. About three weeks later, I found him coiled up in a cardboard box in the brumation room. Ziggy was gone for another three or four months. She must have remained in brumation until it warmed up enough for her to figure springtime had arrived. I kept a water dish on the floor inside the brumation-room, and a Ziggy-meal sized mouse in a cage just outside. One day - there she was! Again she trapped herself by pigging out.

I've got a couple of dozen snakes, and hardly ever have I had anyone escape except Houdini (either alone or with his companion/s).
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tricia