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My corn snake has escaped from his cage (if my wife finds out I'm dead). The cage is in the basement so I presume he's still there.
Any tips on where/how to look? Any trips to use to lure him out of hiding?
Many thanks.

Some thoughts...you have a tough road ahead.

1.) Look in warm places. (hopefully not the furnace)
2.) Turn out the lights and just listen closely. Have a flashlight ready.
3.) Look in the immediate area around the cage, especially ledges, nooks, anywhere they would feel secure.
4.) Set out some thawed mice in open containers. Put something that will make some noise in the container with the mouse. You can try crumpled up newspaper. (milk jugs, plastic shoe boxes, etc.) Do this just before you cut the lights and go back to #2.

Good luck

First things first...tell your wife that the snake escaped...if she ventures into the basement and stumbles upon it, that could be trouble! If the basement is furnished, look in the couch cushions. If there's a fridge down there, look under the fridge...carefully! If the basement isn't furnished, look under anything that it can get into or hide under...if there's a chance that the snake could get outside, look around the base of your house and under leaves and around shrubs...GOOD LUCK!!! If you don't live in a warm climate and you think the snake could be outside...look quickly...before it freezes.

corns love to go up. Look anywhere they could climb and get on top of.

First make sure he's actually missing not just hiding in the cage somewhere. They tend to do that. I would leave the lid to the cage open and the heating on, he may decide to come back on his own if the rest of your house is too cold. You can also do the sodd pop bottle thing... take an empty 2 liter coke bottle and put a f/t pinky in there and put a heat light on it (the light is not really necessary)... he may get hungry and come back.

But in your searching, look up first. Corns LOVE to climb, and will go up before they go down. Look in every box that there's no way he could get in. Then look under and all around it. Remember how extremly small it can coil up into. Then realize it can get a lot smaller than that.

I'm sure you'll find it... just look in all your closets and any dark space.
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