After much thought & debate, I decided to go home to NC for a visit, ordered and rigged the water bottles for the ASF's, made arrangements for my son to come feed & water them every 3 days for the 7 days I was gone, fed all snakes night before I left, so there was no need for him to deal with them, simple enough right?......

WRONG!!!!!!

I come home after driving 12 hrs to escaped asf's from the grow out tub, so I'm thinking no big deal, I'll set some rat traps, it's 4:30am at this point so I go to bed. I wake up around 9 this morning ready to head to HD for traps, after I spot check all the snake tubs, I notice 1 tub is cracked ever so slightly, I'm thinking no way, this can't be! Yup female het pied GONE!! No setting traps now.

I call my son, to let him know that that the escapee asf's weren't his fault, and casually asked if he checked on any of the snakes, and he said yes, that he'd checked their water dishes. GRRRRRR

So to top things off I check on my girl Thema and she's coiled up around at least 7 eggs.

So now I have to go thru every box sitting in my dining room that is supposed to go to Goodwill to make sure no snake or rats are in it, have to drive an hour to go borrow a friends snake w/ camera attachment to look under and behind fridge, stove etc.