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I have been following all of the stories on the forum recently about lost snakes with great interest. You see, my mexican black/ cal king intergrade has been missing for a few weeks, and I was getting kinda worried. Well, I was taking a shower this morning, rinsing the soap out of my eyes, and what do I see? My snake slithering out of the shower drain like something in a horror movie! It seems that he didnt like warm soapy water invading his new home. I'm lucky I didn't wash him down the drain. I snatched him up and put him back into his enclosure, and all is well. Until the next one escapes!

Greg

It's amazing where you will find the escapees. I lost a pueblan milk snake on the 2nd floor of my house one year. We have 2 cats and a dog as well. After I didn't find him for a month or so I thought I would never see him again. Then almost a year later to the date I was mowing the lawn and he goes cruizing past the lawn mower in the back yard. I quickly captured him and put him back in his cage. A week later he was gone again. I guess some snakes just aren't meant to be caged.

A 12" yearling gray band got out at my house and made it from the herp room upstairs to the kitchen downstairs on the other end of the house. He crawled up a wrought iron phone stand and took a nap under the phone in the cradle of the cordless. All this in a single morning with two dogs in the house. My roommate went to make a call while I was at work, and totally freaked out.

When I got home the eat-in part of the kitchen, (where the phone stand is), was totally blocked off floor to ceiling with a patchwork of ripped cardboard and ducktape and the phone was on the floor. It was like some sort of crime scene. (my roommate at the time was not much of a snake person) I found the little guy later that night under the hot water baseboard heater. It took me ten times longer to clean up the cardboard/tape mess...

Lucky for you. I'll share a story:

When I first moved out on my own, I lived in a new apartment building with 3 floors. I had a small collection of graybands and sinaloans, and one young lyre snake. The lyre was in a melamine cage with 1/4" dia ventilation holes. The snake looked bigger than the holes. Well, lyre snakes can do amazing things I guess (they are rock dwellers and can squeeze into the tightest of crevices in the wild) and managed to get out. That night someone a few doors down saw the snake in the hall and told me about it (little did he know..). A week later I was walking in the elevator and saw movement out of the corner of my eye. Sticking out between the elevator doors and the wall was the last half of the snake moving. I thrust my arm in the narrow space and managed to catch the snake, which was totally unharmed and fine. Unbelievable in that 1)I found the snake before anyone else complained and 2)in an elevator!