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I just found out that my orange corn snake is missing from her home... my daughter was playing with her on friday and did not close the lid very well and she has escaped... any suggestions... we have searched both floors of the house and are now looking in the basement :0(

I've had a couple misplacements. Look in warm areas of the house...under fridges, furnaces, water heaters, and driers. Snakes like to feel secure and that means hiding in dark, closed-in areas. I've found mine in the couch once. I've also found my snake at the top of a bookshelf.

Another good technique is to place shoeboxes, with a couple of holes cut in them, in strategic locations around the house. I've had success with this. Check the boxes in the morning when you get up.

A lost snake sucks...good luck.

If it's any consolation, I've never lost one yet that I didn't find. It will turn up eventually....probably sooner than you expect.

thanks for the ideas and encouragement....I lost a baby corn a couple of years back....she did show up out of the blue cuddled up in a blanket...but 11 months later!...she did not grow much... I was amazed she was still alive....I sure hope I find this one way sooner than that.......

thanks again

Take a small, but confortable-for-the-snake-in-question box and fold the four flaps in the in/out in/out pattern (you know what I mean, right?
Choose a box which is going to fold-in tightly.
Put a (preferably frozen-thawed) prey item in the box, near where you might guess the snake will be (wherever that might be =0) and leave it overnight.
It has been the case that the snake will slide in the box and eat the prey and then be too fat to slide back out, so it will just chill.

Also, if the snake is not too small and delicate, you can try tape traps.
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