This rarely happens to me, so I'm mainly just venting here. I've been keeping snakes for years and occasionally, usually through human error (forget to clip the top down or lock the cage completely), one of the critters gets out. I've usually found the snakes very shortly after noticing them missing because I just keep looking till I find them, but this time I was out of town and my husband discovered the escape one day into my week long trip. My crazy bengal cat knocked a couple of critter cages (with locking tops) off a shelf and one popped open, releasing my female black/green phase yearling African House snake. So I've spent most of a week away from home worrying about the missing snake and frustrated by not being able to do anything about it. Just got home last night and spent a couple of hours searching and rearranging the furniture. I'm afraid this time it's hopeless. The snake is approx. a foot long and a few centimeters wide, it could be anywhere. I'm also afraid that one of my darling cats killed it and hid the body somewhere prior to my husband discovering the escape. Sigh- back to moving furniture...
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Lora
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I hate escapes....
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Still haven't found the missing African House Snake and now I discover that my recently purchased Mexican Black King hatchling escaped from a Boaphile hatchling rack! Another tiny black snake to look for!!! ARGH! He's TINY (approx. 8 inches long and about a 1/4 inch thick) and I've only got a million black power cords in the room to keep checking. What I can't figure is how after eating a fat pink three days ago, he got up the energy to squeeze out of the less than 1/8th inch gap at the top of the tub. And I even have the tubs shimmed to try to prevent this. The only plus is in my frantic searching today, I found a tiny spot of possible snake poop under my desk. So one of the MIAs is still pooping at least.
That's it- I'm switching to bigger snakes...
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Lora
Just recaptured the little Mexican Black King. Other than a slight musking, no problems- not even an attempt to bite. I've shimmed the tub to about 1/16th of a gap and hope that will solve the roaming snake problem. He doesn't look any fatter, so I'm hoping he didn't find the little African House snake that's missing too, during his travels around the snake room.
So never give up, you may find them sometimes!
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Lora
