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Well it was about 1230 at night and the wife and are were....well we were busy, when we heard the cat jumping around by my bedroom door, I looked over to see the cat all fluffed up and making false charges at this little worm like animal. Then it struck me, damn thats a corn snake, I moved the wife (life does have prioities after all)and jumped up to grab the little guy before the cat mustered up the courage to do it herself. I got it and looked at it and it was one of mine! I guess one had gotten out when I was working with them earlier in the day and I had not noticed. When he did not get back into his cage he came accross the house to find me so I could put hin away LOL
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com

I set a rubbermaid container out (w/no lid) with about 60 frozen mice of all sizes that needed to thaw. The container was sitting on a small stepstool. Well, a few hours later, I decided it was time for feeding. I went into the snake room and behold, three mice on the floor and several missing from inside the container??? After about 2 minutes of scratching my head, I figured a wild snake must have entered from outside. Then my imagination got the better of me...multiple snakes? a spider? no...couldn't be...unless someone's pet....a cat? maybe........My mind was racing to figure out what got to these mice.

I did a random spot check/scan of snakes enclosures. Nothing out of the ordinary. Hmmm.... Well, none of my snakes have EVER escaped, EVER in 10 years! But, I guess I got cocky so I figured I better check each one anyway. Well, after about 40 enclosures, all were present....50....no snakes missing...55..down to the last one...GONE!...

Well, my tiny male 03 Ringed Python decided it wasn't necessary to wait so he somehow mysteriously got out and climbed the footstool that the container was on (with the mice).
He managed to eat a few mice then climb down....but that simply wasn't good enough for him.....He was greedy...he took three mice down to the floor with him and left them in a perfect trail which led me right to him. He was sitting fat as can be near some ebay boxes I was about to pack and ship. I still, to this day, do not know how he got out AND how in the world he managed to eat so many mice AND carry three mice with him that were 3X's his size combined. Needless to say, his enclosure is weighted down now and his name was changed to Houdini!
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Sincerely,
Jason
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www.members.aol.com/northeastsnakes

About 16 years ago when I was living on campus at OSU, I had a hatchling Burm that had gotten loose in the house where I lived. She was gone two days and I had no idea where to even look for her. Our house had 4 floors including the attic and basement and more rooms than I can remember. I went to bed one night after a long night out at the bars and basically just passed out. At the time, I was in the basement and slept in a water bed that I had taken off the pedestal so it was on the floor. Around 10 am I was was woken up when I felt a little flick on the inside of my thigh. I reached down and found my baby burm curled up in my crotch. Thank god she was VERY tame or it could have been a really bad experience!

Glad you got it back and good to see you have your priorities straight!
Take care,
Rick
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"D'oh!" Homer Simpson

Thats awesome the only time i have been graced with escapes, was a bannana phase king, and i searched for weeks on end, and finally gave up and took the loss. well a week later my wife bought me a mexican milklsnake, and as i was setting up the cage for the guy i grabbed a hid box out of the reptile supply closet and low and behold there was the king, curled inside his old hide.
then my then 6 foot burmese got out due to my roomate leaving the door to his room open, snake that is, and i couldnt find her, saw the couch base moving, needless to say i had to rip the couch apart to get her out, but she is a live and well to this day in a Zoo at 15 feet long.

ken
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0.1 Albino Cal. King (Fokker)
1.0 Reverse Okeetee Corn (trouble)
0.1 Creamsicle Corn (Spot)
1.1 Bearded Dragons (Bob & Margret)
1.3 Dogs(George, Sandy, Cookie and Ladybird) they are rescues, Lhasa Apso, Mutt, Boxer, and Daschund mix
0.0.22 Bearded Dragon Eggs...more to come
1.0 Betta
0.1 Wife
0.1 Kid

Today's a good day for this too... Jester is one of my cal kings... he's escaped three times.... and the last time he escaped was a week or two ago, and today I found him!

His first escape, he was a big yearling or so, I fed him but didn't put the lid back on properly, he snuck out, but didn't want to be lonely, so he crawled into bed with hubby and I. It's 4 am, and I suddenly realize that hubby has gone all cold and scaly..... the snake was trying to get in between us! Talk about a WAKE UP CAll

Second time he escaped, we didn't even know he was gone... returned from work, and glance into the bathroom, there he is hanging half out of the toilet bowl.

This last time he escaped from our escape proof cage.... lid was still locked.... but he was certainly OUT of the cage. Today I was cleaning the mouse cages, reached into my stack of clean bins and was freaked to feel a snake (I was looking the other way). Think I woke a few neighbors.

Had my AZ mountain king escape once, found her camped out on top of the mouse cages. Rosy Boa escaped and found it when it crawled out of a ceiling vent (how the HECK did he get up ThERE). Found my Jungle Carpet Python three different times (she was in an unsecured cage, but until she suddenly started escaping (a year after I got her) she never tried to escape. When she DID escape, she never went far.... found her on a heating pad (I'd moved the cage, but not the pad) once, crawling up my leg once, and another time found her when I was looking for a DVD.

I've been working on keeping the cages I have more secure, but it always seems theres some snake wandering loose. Right now I only have one snake on the loose, and as it's a "Little" (less than a year old) I don't expect to see it again. "Big" snakes always turn up, little ones never do. If she doesn't snow up, that will be the fourth baby snake I'll have lost in 3 years. In her case the lid had a manufacturers defect in it, but this wasn't noticed until the snake went missing. (ARGH).
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~Sasheena