I did not have a great week so far. I went back to NJ this weekend, and when I came back to my place in Boston I noticed my rat was missing. I was a little worried, but I was sick and I had to go to class, so only a quick search and then I had to leave. Later when I came back I realized that it was useless to search seeing as I have had mice come into my apt. before and if she went in one of the holes she was gone. I took a nap since I'm sick, and wake up to her scurrying around on top of her closed cage, she can sure jump!. So I wake up and look, she scurries away, and I'm like well, she'll come back again for food, open it up, go back to doing some work, and sure enough I hear her jumping again, and watch her jump right up onto the top of her cage and down into it again, hooray she's back! So the next morning I wake up to realize that I fell asleep on things, and the I had left a rainbow boa cage cracked to give him some air. So of course he's gone. I search everywhere, under and behind everything, move the fridge, no where to be found. I did however find a hole under my sink, and decided he went there following mouse scent. This was tuesday morning. So last night, right as I was leaving to go watch fireworks, my friend turns around and looks into my kitchen saying, "uh, Mike, that snake you're missing? I found it." It had crawled up onto my friends bike that he rode over that we put it my kitchen, with his tail wrapped around the tire, leaning on the handlebars, staring down lunch, which happened to be my poor freaked out female Uroplatus sikorae, she was in a pretty good defensive posture. So after two days of being out he too decided that food was closer than he was searching. I was really worried though because he is 6 feet, by far the strongest snake I have at the moment, and he is extremely mean, so I was hoping he didn't get too far away from my place, but it seems he never even left.

Not the most interesting story ever, but I thought it was worth telling, especially to think about next time you lose a snake. Sorry it's so long.