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Escaped Snakes support thread

StarpphireEnigma

StarpphireEnigma

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ok, just forming this quickly, hopefuly to acumulate data and help for escaped snakes of all kinds and sizes.

the point of this thread:
have you lost a snake?
where?
when?
did you recover the snake (yet) ?
how?
what worked, what didnt work in getting your snake?
did your snake come out alive in the end?

i understand this is a repetitive subject, i just hope we can get as many stories ( bad, good, strange, amazeing, in progress) in one place, hopefuly to encourage

i know of many methods to capture/lure the snake out, but i love to hear variations and unusual tactics as well.- basicaly, i want to get a list going, and then i will update it in this post with your credit for anything special, or spoken first.

please sumerize your story/progress, and hopefuly things will get better for those suffering the loss of a pet.

Star Destroyer, female 24 inch spotted python, missing 6 days :(
 

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this is how special he is to my husband- she chose him out of a swarm of snakes- after takeing her home, we found her patterns to be unique-
here is a regular pic, and a pic to show you what i mean.
my husbands name is joe, by the way ;)
 

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Oh no! Joes Snake! It's a bit creepy that she chose him AND has his name showing. I really really really hope you'll find her. Good luck!
 
yeah, she loves him, she always comes to him when he aproaches the tank, crawls up on him, gives him kisses on the nose, and has NEVER bit anyone- the most wonderful snake :( he is heart broken we cant find her.
 
Well I really hope you'll find her!

On another note: I know you have the cat and she's not a big help in finding the snake, but do your friends have cats/dogs? Maybe your cat is so used to the smell of the snake that she's not bothered by or interested in it? You could ask your friends to bring their dog/cat over and see if THEY can sniff her out?
 
Maybe even a local animal shelter willing to lend a pet out for a day of excitment lol Doesn't hurt to ask
 
lol actualy, she loves sniffing out star- every night, she would always look to see if we had her with us, or tatsu or sophie- mabe its all show, and her sniffer is broken?
nobody i know would help with her- nobody in our family or friends have animal/ interest to help-sigh
 
My escaped snake story isn't very exciting. One night after coming home from work, I was very tired but I wanted to feed the snakes. At that time, Alex was still a little picky and took awhile to finally eat the mouse. I put him in his container, set an alarm for 15 minutes, and went to lie down. When the alarm went off, I got Alex who thankfully had eaten, opened the feeding container and placed it in his tank (I like to let them crawl out on their own), but never put the lid back on his bin! I must've been too tired to notice.

I woke up in the morning to see Alex's bin open, and started digging through the aspen to find him! He wasn't there, but I really had to use the bathroom, so I decided to do that first. When I opened the bedroom door he darted out in front of me into the hallway. Not so fast! I grabbed him and plopped him in his tank, and that was Alex's big adventure.

I really hope you get her back soon! I wish I had some more ideas for you, but I will keep Star Destroyer and your family in my thoughts! (I love her name also :))
 
I had several cornsnakes escape over the years, although none recently (none in the past few years). I found the escapees in a variety of unexpected places - one yearling was found after a week on the top shelf of my closet. NO idea how she got up there (but corns are known to be agile climbers). She was hiding in the bottom of a clear shoebox, so I saw her as soon as I opened the door.

I had an adult escape when I first started keeping corns before college. He escaped in late fall / early winter, I found him after 3 months just around the time when snow was melting outside. I believe he brumated himself somewhere in the house! He was very, very thin, but bounced back after some solid meals. (no idea how he managed to get enough water while he was out that long, even if he brumated himself..)

If it has been over a week since your snake has escaped, try putting a dish of water out with a sponge in it. The sponge will create more surface area & water scent.. she will get thirsty wayyyy before she *needs* a meal.

Other people have left a dusting of flour across a doorway to indicate if the snake moved across it recently.
 
heres a good one from a different forum:
"The most commen place I find them is behind the fridge. Just think, it's going to find a nice dark, warm place to coil up, so think of all the dark places with any sort of heat source in your house and look there. Also as a trap, you could setup an electric blanket on the floor somewhere with a dooner (or some thick blanket) on top, turn it onto a high setting so it's easier for the snake to sense the heat from a distance, and wait. It works a charm for me. "
 
another idea ( though her meals are too small for one of these i think) :

"Something that's worked every time is putting a mouse in a bird cage - bars large enough to squeeze into, but not large enough to get out of when it's done with its meal"
 
wow, from all the stories ive read thus far, spotted pythons get into the strangest places! curtain rack, top shelf in a closet in a shoe box, and my favorit, a clicked shut cd case- wow- this opens up a number of new places to look.
i think what i will do is move her tank BACK to where its suposed to be- for some reason i put it on the floor, hopeing it would attract her- mabe thats upsetting her? and ill do the heat blanket and spounge trick plus flour, and do it along the wall of where her tank is- ill update you guys on any progress
 
forgive the posts, but this one gives me extreem hope :)

"Lost my baby spotted python over a year ago.. was pretty devistated, but last week i found him again slithering along the dining room floor =) hes pretty skinny, just shed but he'll be ok. pretty stoked i got him back =) "
 
more:

"I would maybe put your mousie in a small takeaway container (with holes punched!) in Noodle's enclosure with the heat on, then have plastic bags around the enclosure so you can hear him if he tries to sneak back"

"Why won't the toaster thingy go down? Check it rather than force it down Inside straws, entertainment units, kids bags, socks, pencil cases, you name it, he will turn up somewhere you won't believe"

"it turned up 4 months later, coiled under a CD in a CD rack... They end up in the strangest places...
She had another one end up coiled around a door knob... on the inside of the door, so it wasn't noticed for weeks"
 
"Turn off anything that generates heat. Make the house as cold as possible. Then create a warm spot. Its winter make him find heat. You will most likely find him at night too.

They love to get wraped up in leads and things like that. check behind the T.V"

here is a contradiction to the warm spot theory:

"make the room, or house, as warm as you can, and cruise around every 30 mins to 1 hour when the lights are off. If you make the house very cold, a small snake is not going to move around seeking heat, it won't have enough thermal energy of its own, it's more likely to stay put in one spot until things generally warm up. Warm house = more activity = more likely to be discovered moving around in the dark. Cold house = lethargy = stays put until house warms up."
 
sounds logical to warm the house up .... have you cooled yours off? I'd imagine snakes eat less when cold? That would cause her to be less interested in food, too ... so all the food laying around wouldn't coax her out
 
"when i lost mine he was curled up under my computers hard drive thingo "

"Do you have magazines or newspapers laying on or under a coffee table? or on the floor?"

"i found mine once in a photo album "

"i had a spotted mac escape twice. first time i found him in with my camera in its bag, really tight fit. he had climbed a cane stand about six feet to get in this. next time he was gone for 3 weeks and my wife found him in the spare vacuum hose"

"try using the mouse to lay scent trails from the corner of the room, to the hides you have set up. (just rub it along the paths you want a few times) when it warms up and gets hungry it should go for a hunt."
 
Stefanie said:
sounds logical to warm the house up .... have you cooled yours off? I'd imagine snakes eat less when cold? That would cause her to be less interested in food, too ... so all the food laying around wouldn't coax her out
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very true! i hope all this info isnt bothersom ( with 10 or so posts by mua :crazy02: )
so many things to try!
 
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