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Snake escape and recapture

Kermit262

Kermit262

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So last night I'm in my daughter's room changing her snake's water, when I hear my step-daughter scream at the top of her lungs. I'm not particularly alarmed because knowing my step-daughter, it could be a response to anything, say, a presidential assassination or the DVR failing to record her favorite program (almost always somewhere in the latter category). But my ears perk up when I hear her start screaming "Snake!" So I run into her room, and there on the floor is my butter stripe Terri, out for a stroll. I quickly apprehended the naughty little sheila, and before I even knew what was happening, my first snake escape was over with no stress or worry. :D

And yes, I've reinforced Terri's vivarium top, so hopefully this is the last time she'll go on a walk-about. Too bad all snake escapes don't end so well. :sobstory:
 
Yeah you got very lucky. Over the years I have had 6 escapes and have only found 2 of them. Those two found were several days later. Good job and I hope it doesn't happen again for you.
 
How did she get out? Was there a space, or was brute force involved? It's great that you found her before you even worried, in any case.
 
Brute force. I had a solid top on her cage that was causing the humidity to be too high (greater than 90%). So I ordered her a secure screened top online, and in the meantime put a window screen on top of her cage and weighted it down. I knew it wasn't the most secure, but hey, she's just a little snake (18 g), so no worries, right? :dunce:
 
Wow, you had awesome luck. So far I've been as lucky as you have. I've had two escapes, and two could-have-been-escapes. The first escape was Ellipses, my ghost baby. I hatched her myself, and decided as soon as I saw her that I was going to keep her, sure enough, that night she escaped her sandwich container. I found her the next day (luckily-- my room's a DISASTER). The second escape I didn't even know about. My brother's friend was over and left Calypso's tank open just a little bit. I found the bugger in the bathroom in the middle of the night.

And the two could-have-been escapes were both the same snake. My cat kept jumping on the screen lid, and he busted it twice, the snake, my male Ira, was on the hunt for females both times, but never left his viv (whew!) His tank's got a reinforced lid now :)

Once again, you're VERY lucky, hopefully it doesn't happen again :)
 
Regit,

If I'm very lucky, then you must be very very lucky! :laugh:

Congrats on finding your sankes as well.

As an aside, when I went to check on her last night, she was at the top of the aquarium, doing her best to get out. I'm seriously considering grounding her. :)
 
Hehe, as soon as we found Calypso and put her back in her tank, she too was desperately trying to get back out. Ellipses was just the same-- she ended up getting bumped up into a kritter keeper because I was afraid she'd escape again!
 
Isn't it amazing how much strength even a bitty snake has? In my experience, once they've gotten out it's all they can think about for a while. Sheesh, you'd think they'd appreciate their comfy, safe, warm/cool vivs a bit more!
 
Hah, go figure as soon as I post about how good Ira has been about his tank lid being busted so many times, he has to go prove me wrong. I came home from closing at work tonight, around 3am, to see the cat looking very interested in what looked (strangely enough :p ) like a snake tail. In the dark, it only looked like half a snake, and I almost panicked. Upon turning the light on, there's Ira, stretched out across my floor about to go into the nightstand the eggs are incubating on.

Thankfully, Squish (the cat. Leave his name alone :p ) is a good boy, he's got claws, and loves to watch 'the bird show' out the kitchen window, I'm amazed Ira didn't get poked at. Upon inspection of Ira's tank, the half-asleep conclusion is:
I need a stand, methinks my not-so-small puppy decided to try and stand on the lid, it was completely bent out of shape. Upon further inspection, Ira left me a giant skin with a pile of poo in it. Thanks Ira, thanks a lot.
 
Their strength is amazing. Just another thing that makes them so fascinating.

Regit - I see your luck is holding true to form!
 
You have a very special kitty, oddly named or not! I'm glad that "half a snake" turned out to be the whole critter.
 
lol I've had both of my sunglows escape, the female I found the next day inside of my vacuum cleaner way up in the handle away from any moving parts. The male escaped twice on me. First time I found him in my clothes hamper a week later, I was sorting close and all I remember was "shirt.. shirt... shirt..black.. black... orange snake... wait orange snake?" and I put him back in his tank. Second time he was in my mothers closet... at 4 am... that went well lol.
 
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