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Hello, my 2ft mexican black king snake has been missing of 1 or 2 days. This i the first time shes gotten out. I really want to find her she's my mums and she's away on hoilday(I feel terrible). What I'm really worried about is that its winter and its really cold, will this affect my chances of finding her, searched everywhere I can think of, is she lightly to try and go outside? Have my heating on 24/7 at the moment but I still dont think it will be hot enough for her. I've put water out and some hot water bottles even though they won't stay hot for long. Just wondering if there is anything else I can do?.... Oh also any chance she'll return to her cage(like a rat)? Thank you

Laundry unites, Air Conditioning units, and your house's boiler room. These areas are usually very warm and tend to be around where people fine theirs. Next to these areas try laying out food on a paper towel to see if it disappears (assuming you have no pets that normally roam the house). Another possibility is if you have your heat on and there is air ducts at ground level that it might have slipped into. For this you can add string to a rat/mouse's tail, toss it in as far as you can, and drag it to leave a scent trail for the snake to stalk it.

Along the base of your walls (snakes tend to move while staying tight to the wall) you can add strong double sided adhesives. This works for trapping just about any animal from spiders and roaches, to reptiles and rodents. I used a strong double sided tape to successfully catch an adult Eastern Ribbon Snake about the side of a young adult kingsnake. I had to stay up all night because of cats in the house, but it finally got caught and I got it.