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View Poll Results: Have you lost a snake?

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Thread: Loose snakes

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    Loose snakes

    I was wondering how many people here actually has lost a snake? I'm 29 and was able to start keeping snakes around the age of 9 and I have never had an escapee. I was reading quite a few posts on forums about how many people can't find their snakes. So just how common is it? I had a breeding pair of tokay geckos get out and gone missing for 18 months but never a snake. I did eventually find the tokays under the refrigerator I found a baby tokay under the couch one day and one hanging on the inside of a closet door and a baby on the side of a fish tank. So over the course of 18 months out the produced at least 3 eggs and they hatched. We just found a baby under the couch last night.
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    Re: Loose snakes

    A ton of times! 99% of the time they go under the computer or into the closet.

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    Wink Re: Loose snakes

    I have lost 2 baby corn snakes over the last 3yrs.The first was 3yrs ago and the other was just a couple months ago.To this day they remain escapees and wanted
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    Talking Re: Loose snakes

    I guess I have to consider myself very lucky then.
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    Re: Loose snakes

    My 1 has gotten out 2 times back to back....he got stuck between the rack and the wall the first night...the next night I closed the door to that room and found him under the computer desk the next morning....he hasnt gotten out again..although I cant figure out how he even got out to begine with...who knows.
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    Re: Loose snakes

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAudOne
    My 1 has gotten out 2 times back to back....he got stuck between the rack and the wall the first night...the next night I closed the door to that room and found him under the computer desk the next morning....he hasnt gotten out again..although I cant figure out how he even got out to begine with...who knows.
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    Re: Loose snakes

    I've had less than handfull of escapes and zero losses. Generally due to keeper error.
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    Re: Loose snakes

    My male escaped one night on us. We didnt even know he had escaped though.
    I woke the kids for school and my youngest who is very hard to get going decided she was going to crawl in our big chair and test my patience with her ( a morning ritual we just cant break) and she moved a backpack that had been left there and screeched very loud and then became speechless! I went running to her and she pointed trying to stutter the word snake, so I lifted the backpack and there lay all coiled up and cute Slinky. He had used a small xmas tree I set next to his house and made his way to the chair.
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    Re: Loose snakes

    Ive only lost the one snake but he wasnt that hard to find as he was a 6ft boa lol , my fault entirly didnt check the lock on his viv when i went to change his water lol , i found him hanging off the ceiling light shade with a smug look on his face
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    Re: Loose snakes

    i kept my first bp in an ap cage for a while--the cage had a hole in the top of it for cords/lights and whatnot. this hole was seemingly too small for nellie to fit through but i covered it with a glass vase thing that was full of rocks and water and held some bamboo (very heavy). somehow though she mananged to get her nose far enough through the hole enough to push the vase off of the cage (BIG mess on the carpet) and she then squeezed herself out though the opening. she was found the next day wedged between the cage and the wall.
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