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I got this beautiful new family member and had him for at least 4 days. Had some kids come over to play with him. He ate a couple of days before, very well, I might add. And he escaped. I have search high and low and I cannot find him. Any suggestions where to look?

I would look in the most cluttered places with the tightest hiding spots, starting with the closest to where the snake escaped. I usually find ground dwellers like king or milk snakes within a foot of the floor. If it's the same day I often find them in the same room. If it's the second day or later they are often further away. I have a closet in the baby snake room that it TIGHTLY packed with various crap and it has always been my lucky, go to spot for escaped snakes.
Good luck.
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Randy Whittington

I'll keep on looking...I guess it's Winter Cleaning!!! Would love to find him...I am worried about him.

Since he just ate he is probably within a few feet of where he escaped. They zseem to love tight spots and plastic bags. I found sevral inside my waste paper can because there are holes underneat it where they can crawl in.

it is amazing how well they can hide.
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www.Bluerosy.com

"Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8".

"They that can give up essential liberty, to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety." -Benjamin Franklin

Don't lose hope! Found my GBK crawling across the living room floor 10 months and a Montana winter later, skinny and injured, but now she's fine, and way more mellow!

Don't underestimate how small or how wierd a place it might wind up, that's exactly what they're good at...the smaller and darker the better. I had a Cal King escape in December that I found in the hall in March...no worse for wear and hardly any leaner!

I know how you feel. This morning i realized i lost a baby mandarin ratsnake. I am just taking break now. I gotta resume searching in a few mins...lol

k

if there's a computer near the snake cage check out the PC--the area around and underneath it. Check out any place that's tight, dark and comfy and close.

Speakers, computers, anything that emits a gentle heat and offers hiding space.

When Trouble escaped, I actually found him hiding in a stack of cages--he'd slithered between 'em.

places I have found them

IN the bird cage full of bird
IN the lab cage full of mice laying on top of dead mice
bottom of steps in open
fallen into trash bag
between cookie sheets in kitchen cabinet
between other dishes in cabinets
between boxes in closet
corner of closet

under heat panel,under carpet peering at my father in the bathroom.....till the "fuzzball" stuck it's tongue out and freaked him out....

crawling over shelf and knocking stuff down(hear them)

crawling /peering out from sides of tubs in racks
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same,....they like going from shelf to shelf behind boxes...trouble is...they like pushing them forward too....
...heard of a guy finding his cal king...the next spring on his front step oustide....

and my all time oddest.....in the middle of the road between the yellow lines flat as a pancake out front of my house.....couple month ago......

......man....I lose more than I thought....well...it covers 30 years or more......

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I fouynd one once in my dish washer. It was locked tight and just run. Don't ask me how it got or how it survived.

Another time I went to take a nap and i felt something moving under my head. it was the snake inside the pillow case inbetween the pillow and case.
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www.Bluerosy.com

"Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8".

"They that can give up essential liberty, to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety." -Benjamin Franklin

About 10 years ago, I went to put on a pair of baggy cut-off army short that were in a laundry basket, and found my 4 ft. Honduran in one of the huge front pockets as I was about to put them on.

Scared the CRAP outta me too for a second too!, I wasn't exactly expecting to find a big snake in my shorts that morning..LOL!

Of course this will no doubt open the door for a few good jokes, but oh well, that's what happened..LOL!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

a few jokes.....you know what we are thinking.....
something like the "only" time ....and the words big snakes were used in the same paragraph...etc etc etc....

I didn't type it I thought it.....

......that was funny.....and yes, finding a mouse in a shoe will scare the crap outta you for a second....or anything.....even a little baby corn bite....and we get bitten a thousand times and find critters all over the place...it's the unexpected stuff....

oops...what....wow.....LOL....

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Yeah, it was unreal!,...my brain actually "short-circuited" in utter SHOCK for a split second man!,.....then quickly changed to relief that I finally found her after a few months of being loose..LOL!

It was actually my favorite very nice easy-going tangerine breeder female, so I was really bent out of shape when I found her gone.

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

I am definitely LMAO...this story is too funny not to share...plus it gives me hope. He has been gone a week now and I am still looking.

I had a giant Brooks king in my room back when I was a teenager in an aquarium with a screen lid held down with weights. No amount of weight could keep it in any time it wanted out. I stacked coins on the lid so it would wake me up every time he got out. My sister had a small boa that got out one time and we looked everywhere three times. It was on the very top of a lamp shade coiled around the edge and blended in so well we did not see it in plain sight for like an hour.

Where did you get the turd aquarium tank from?,....Paul Stone??..LOL!

That is some funny crap bro!, We all had those back then with bricks and books, or whatever on the corners to "try" to keep them from escaping..LOL!

One of those Indigo's you remembered when we were kids got loose,never to be found again.

Oh, the great memories?..LOL!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

I “invented” wire loops to keep the lids down right after that, like a band that went all the way around the tank on both ends. All I had to do was slide the loop off the end to take the top off.

My kids always tell me I need to write a book with all my experiences in it, but I keep telling them nobody would believe it! I think we were the last of the Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer type of kids who got to have great adventures without the parents wondering if we’d been kidnapped or something.

" I think we were the last of the Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer type of kids who got to have great adventures without the parents wondering if we’d been kidnapped or something."

Man!,....I have a good buddy(Alan Hamel) from the old Lauderdale Manors neighborhood that I still see very often, and we say that EXACT same thing very often bro.

Since that time, things have really gone down hill FAST.

We both drove by our old neighborhood there a few years ago, and practically got sick to our freakin' stomachs at what we saw. It was simply appalling!

We were definitely some of the "last Mahicans" I think too buddy. You could even go out Trick or Treating in the big city by yourself without likely being snatched-up by a pedophile too.

Both of us no doubt consider ourselves lucky to have been from that great era.

Those were indeed some fantastic times my friend, and it still totally amazes me that we were actually together with Paul Stone, and that you actually saw one of those Indigo's I used to have back in the day. That is just too much!..LOL!

take care my friend!, ~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

"For HE Was a child,,,!!!,,of the 70's"....!!!........

.(Claypool)....

......yes........aaaaaaaaaah..........kids have more fun...
I used to dream of growing up to be able to afford the critters and stuff I wanted back then.........ha.....well....I have thousands of animals....but no time and not as much fun.....
....I haven't just sat inside a big pigeon coop, for an hour ,for nothing,...in decades........suxx.....

......and yes....driving by old haunts will make us sick now.....house,house,house,house,hundred houses.....
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Yeah, boy, do I hear ya there!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

Doug, the Indigo impressed me, but it really blew me away that you were buying feeder mice in quantity as a sixth grader, dude. That was super cool! It was the end of an era when they built houses on Bradley Field grounds and I95 took the palmetto scrub through our old neighborhood. I have to make it to Daytona sometime so we can go back and share some good old days stories.
Hey Doug, have you ever seen that movie "Hoot"? It was written by a guy from Plantation and is a little slice of what we experienced in a way. Some familiar scenery and themes.

That would be great for us to meet up at Daytona one day, I would realy like that a lot man!, maybe this coming year if you can make it. We could laugh about a bunch of old stuff..LOL!

Wow!,..I used to live in Plantation too from about 1991 to 2000. The name "Hoot" sort of rings a bell, but I can't recall what it was about though.

Yep, Bradley Airport, and those other areas were some fun "stompin' ground for sure man, dirt bike ridin' too..LOL!

I still think about the Indigo you guys captured that was coiled up in a freakin' Coke can in Easterlin Park,.....what an awesome find!!..LOL!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

I wasn’t there that day, I think it was Devon Dartnell and Paul Stone and another kid. I think I thought it was you! We went right after that happened and they told me all about it. Must have been yet another snake hunting nut in the neighborhood. I found a baby and I didn’t even know what it was, it did not look like an Indigo to me!
Hey Doug, remember the old grocery store up by Sunrise Blvd in the old neighborhood? My parents set me up in the parking lot behind the liquor store with a couple of folding tables and a bunch of stuff to sell like a garage sale and left me there all day to make money. Making change, cash drawer, haggling, etc. I was eleven! Ha ha, I think that is child abuse today.

Man, that stuff is too funny!

If you set up shop there in that neighborhood now, you would get robbed in a matter of minutes!

Nothing but Blacksnakes there now!..LOL!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

The only snake I ever had get out was let loose by a kid. I put a shoe box with a hole in the lid on the floow in a corner with a water bowl and wet paper towles in it. The snake (an amel corn snake) was in it the next day! also if all else fails you can try putting duct tape wadded up in the corners too. I hear that small snakes stick to it and can be carfully removed from it without harm. Do not use real sticky tape.
I would try the shoe box on the floor with a hole in the lid for the snake to go into it and hide first. It worked like a charm for me. I have heard others say the same thing. Eric

>>The only snake I ever had get out was let loose by a kid. I put a shoe box with a hole in the lid on the floow in a corner with a water bowl and wet paper towles in it. The snake (an amel corn snake) was in it the next day! also if all else fails you can try putting duct tape wadded up in the corners too. I hear that small snakes stick to it and can be carfully removed from it without harm. Do not use real sticky tape.
>>I would try the shoe box on the floor with a hole in the lid for the snake to go into it and hide first. It worked like a charm for me. I have heard others say the same thing. Eric

The duct tape trick worked for me once....I just placed long strips of duct tape sticky side up on the floor along the walls........And you can use real sticky tape and remove the snake with vegetable oil then clean off the oil with soapy water......
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

The duct tape trick worked for me once....I just placed long strips of duct tape sticky side up on the floor along the walls........And you can use real sticky tape and remove the snake with vegetable oil then clean off the oil with soapy water......

That didn't work to well for me. I laid out duct tape but then the snake did not appear so i quit checking. I looked at the tape one day and there was a dead kingsnake all dried up in it.

So be careful with using duct tape and pick it up after you quit checking it 3x a day.
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www.Bluerosy.com

"Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8".

"They that can give up essential liberty, to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety." -Benjamin Franklin

I thought I was the only one that has lost this many snakes.You guys make me feel better.

Go down to the snake area after the lights have been out for a few hours.Keep going down late at night
Also you can try glue traps or masking tape traps and or sprinkle flour or baby powder around to see if he had ben around

A more important question is How did yo lose it ? I have a special snake room in the basement that only the little guys can escape from,they go in the walls under the wall
I found my gentilis after 3 years in the detatched garage on top of a unsprung rat trap.She was thin but is fine now
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Doug L

Lost my guy like everyone else...screen top except without the bricks and coins. I just got him from a show and had him for 3-4 days and he got away. I have had a corn snake disappear on me once and she popped up two weeks later in my hallway. I am hoping that he will pop up. My first CA Kingsnake.

I had a mexican black king that escaped and a few days later my mother in law found him crawling out of her toilet in the basement. Apparently it went down my toilet on the first floor and into the plumming.

great now my male albino nelson's milk just vanished in a clutter filled basement.............
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...almost stepped on a Cal King in a dark hallway one evening. A lucky find was nearly a disaster! Keep the lights on and an eye out when walking around the house.

When my king got loose, she hide in the matting under the chair right next to her cage and I found her coming out looking for water one afternoon when I got home from work...
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~Maggie~

"Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious."
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