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Unbeknownst to me, my striped anerythristic (het. ghost) escaped his cage.
I found him today...
on the porch outside my house...
frozen solid.

My guess is he got out, evaded my cats, and made his way outside. Seeing as it has been in the teens in CT this past week, he didn't get far.

My only question...

why would he head outside? I mean, I have baseboard heaters set at 70 degrees at the moment. Why would he forsake warm and dark to go outside?
And why would he even get that far without searching for heat? My downstairs hallway is like...35-40 at night.

All in all it's upsetting...but damn he was dumb.

I wanted to drop you a Note as a fellow Snake lover and say im truely sry for your Loss its hard to understand what is going threw thier minds I my self have a MIA snake he has been out for a week now and i just hope hes not made it to the outside mine is a Striped Albino Cali King yearling
Again So sry for your loss
EDD

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0.1 Ultramel CornSnake
0.1 Albino Snow CornSnake
0.1 Miami Phase CornSnake
1.0 Normal CornSnake
1.0 Sunglow CornSnake
0.1 Standard Ball Python
0.0.1 Rough Green Snake
1.0 Eastern {Chain} KingSnake
0.1 Striped Albino Califorina KingSnake
0.0.1 Legless Lizard AkA Glass Snake
0.1 Broad-Head Skink
1.1 Mediterranean Geckos
0.2 Green Iguanas
0.1 Blue Stripe Iguana
2.1 Tiger Striped Oscars (FISH)
0.1 Albino Oscar (FISH)

My stripe albino cal king gost out as well. Escape artists if you ask me. Fortunately he did it during summer. We found him on our front porch lounging in the sun about a month later and about twice the size he was when he got out. I know he made a trip to the back of the house because I found a shed skin in the hallway. Good luck to you in your search
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5.12 Corn Snakes --- 1.0 Tokay Gecko
2.1 King Snakes --- 1.0 House Gecko
1.2 leopard Geckos --- 1.0 Golden Tegu
1.1 Bearded Dragon --- 0.0.1 Savanna Monitor
1.1 Green Iguana --- 0.0.1 Chinese Water Dragon
0.1 Crocodile Gecko --- 1.1 False Water Cobras
1.1 Jungle Corn --- 1.0 Ball Python
0.1 Kenya Sand Boa --- 0.1 Rose Hair Tarantula
1.1 Emperor Scorpions --- 3.0 Ferrets
1.1 Congo African Grey (parrot)--- 0.1 dog
0.0.3 Prairie Ringneck Snakes --- 1.0 blue tongue skink

Perhaps he smelled your cats and was "forced" to go outside?

I dunno, but as with others, I'm sorry for your loss.
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3 Corns - Squall (Normal), Freya (Normal), Peyton (Amel)
2 Florida Kings - Thor & Lilith
1 Leucistic Texas Rat Snake - MacLeod

But anyway. . . Snakes are barely smarter than goldfish. . . (maybe?) . . . .
But ya' gotta luv' em' either way . . .
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