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can anyone give me some advice on how or where my bp could have possibly gone? i don't know how but somehow he got out of his enclosure...i have tore the room upside down twice and cannot find him....any suggestions?

I would check for warm spots in the room such as heating vents, computers, refrigerators, etc... anything that is constantly running and giving off heat.

Also check dark areas that are in low traffic areas such as closets, cabinets, laundry bins, and anything like that.

Even check in dresser drawers as the snake could get under some dressers and work their way up into a drawer (that one I learned from experience!)

Also put a bowl of water out at night and check it through out the night.
You may be surprised.

Good luck!

Matthew J Giandonato

A friend of mine who has been offering very helpful tips on snake keeping mentioned to me that snakes like hiding places with "low roofs". The feeling of a solid surface on multiple sides of their body at once leaves less places for enemies to attack them from. Look under places that look barely big enough for him to crawl under, especially ones that have a heat source as mentioned in a previous reply.

Don't just look low, either, as I'm told Ball Pythons have arboreal tendencies in the wild. Rather than being "right under your nose", he might just be somewhere above it if there is anything he might have been able to climb.

My female got out a few months ago... tore up the whole house and then I found her underneath a stand-up ashtray kept about three feet from her enclosure! They are always in the last place you would expect.
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*~Ginevive~*

what has been the longest anyones snake has been missing? there is a little door in the room with less than 1/2 an inch opening on the bottom, but if he got in there he could be in the walls or anywhere else in the house....since it's like part of the attic..n has opeings in the floor...i'm afraid he got in there n i'm never going to find him....

is he small enough to fit in a shoe?
under pillows
do you have a TV, cable box, VCR, or pter in your room?
exercize equiptment?
luggage with pockets
our 24" subadult fits in shoes easily
U have the heat light set up in the room? as an atraction, with a smallish paper bag as a hide?
in a couple days U can get a food animal
if it is out of the room, and in the walls, it will find food
no house is totally vermin free (well, none of the ones I have been in, even the VERY clean ones)
Good luck
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Elizabeth (ecb)

Make this world a better and more beautiful place that You have been in it
*Edward W Bok*

he's 3 ft long...i have tried lookin in the smallest places...my first problem is that i can't figure out how he got out of the cage...it's all wood except for the screen front....only place i can think of is where the light fixtures are...and that hole is less than an inch in diameter...i'm going to keep looking...i'll try your suggestion with the light n bag once....maybe try putting his favorite hide out to see if i can lure him in...as for food...he hasn't eaten since i got him...so i don't think laying food out to get him to come would work...and i know we have one or two mice in the house...it's inevetable with two non-lived in houses next door....