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My female ball python is gone!!!She is 4 1/2 ft long and has been missing maybe 2 days. I have looked in all of the places I read to look. My concern is for my cat. My cat is 7 mos old, not a kitten, but not full grown. Is the loose snake a danger to her?
Thanks for any help/advice.

>>My female ball python is gone!!!She is 4 1/2 ft long and has been missing maybe 2 days. I have looked in all of the places I read to look. My concern is for my cat. My cat is 7 mos old, not a kitten, but not full grown. Is the loose snake a danger to her?
>>Thanks for any help/advice.

Personally I doubt the ball is gonna do anything to anything danger wise. Most balls are hard enough to switch from mice to rats....somehow I doubt a cat is gonna be seen as anything but a predator.

As for finding her. Have you looked up, not down. Heat rises one and often they are on a top shelf. Two....go to appliances with warmth. Also if you don't have too many wandering critters besides the cat you can try laying a line of flour across rooms and doorways and seeing if it is smeared in the morning. At least get an idea of where she is.
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Sonya

I'm not mean. You're just a sissy.
Happy Bunny

Check behind and under the refigerator....they love that area becasue of the heat.

Dan

If anything the cat is more of a danger to the snake. The snake would strike out in defense but would never consider a 7 month cat as prey. Try this: Take some shipping tape and make loops of it sticky side out. Place several loops in every corner of the house and other strategic areas. Snakes usually crawl around the exterior walls of a house and sooner or later they hit the tape. A Ball Python of 4ft. will drag the tape around and you can hear it dragging the tape. If it gets freed from the tape you will at least know it was there. I have caught many snakes this way, sometimes months later.

Best method I have heard is take a thawed prey item drag it around the base board ending under a hide on top of a heat pad, the snake hungry by now will track the scent, eat the pray and curl up in it's nice warm hide to digest and will still be there in the morning
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