I went into my room and put a mouse in one of my male hog’s cage. I didn’t latch the lid because I was planning to stay in there for a while and watch my snakes eat. Well for some reason I got distracted and left to go outside. I come back to take the lid out of the cage, which I put in with the snakes so they don’t eat the substrate when they’re feeding; and I notice that I forgot to latch the lid. I figured he was still in there because my hogs are usually kind of slow, physically and sometimes mentally, lol. But, just to be safe, I start searching the cage, but she’s not there! So I searched my room frantically. I searched under everything. I searched near heat sources, near walls, and underneath the snake shelf. Then I notice under the shelf a pair of old shoes I have kept, and there he is, deep inside the shoe. I don’t have any idea why. Seems very odd to me, unless my feet smell like rotten snake food, which is possible. Anyway this was my very first and hopefully last snake escape.
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James