I'm such an idiot!

Long story short, I can't even get home from a reptile show before I have a baby pastel missing from the bag. When I left the show, I took her out of the bag in my car, looked at her, smiled at my newest purchase, and put her safely back in the bag. Pulled the bag shut and headed home. Right before I got home, I decided to go pick up some extra paper towels for the tub. I left the windows down a couple inches just to keep some air flowing. When I got back from the store, I go to take her out of the bag, and it's EMPTY! The bag was on the seat. Could she have escaped and slithered out the window? Is that even probable?! I looked everywhere in the car. Would a baby snake try to get into the air vents? I'm going insane here. Any thoughts would be appreciated :please:

yes air vents are highly possible, you are first to loose a snake in the car, one member had to take the whole dash off to retrieve theirs, put windows up camp out next to car, and check periodically.

Anything is possible, but I would doubt that it went out the window. I would bet that it is still in the car some place, but it could be anywhere. I would slowly go through the car starting with the underside of the passenger seat where the bag was.

I dont know what to tell you but i think she or he is still in the car or hope he is

Jeez, I'll have to start looking into taking the dash off. I'm just really nervous, especially since it's a baby :( Thanks for the feedback :tears:

Well, I bought my Pin this Thursday night. The breeder's house is like 1 hour from my apartment, and I couldn't help myself but take the snake out of her tub, and was holding her with one hand, but my GF called me so I laid the snake right between my legs, so that I could have 1 free hand to answer. The call took longer than expected, and when I looked down, she wasn't there.

Once I found a place to pull over, I got out of the car and started looking for her, and after about 20 minutes I found her all balled up under the passenger's seat...


TL;DR version: check under the seats






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I started taking the dashboard off, but then thought to check and see if there was any dust prints around an area where she could have gone in. There were none. Checked under the seats like a person with OCD, nothing, but noticed there is a patch where some wires go for the electric seat. I'll have to take the seat out to get to it, but at this point I'll do anything. It's the only place she could be. Other than that, she either got out the window, or somebody took her :rage:

Didn't you leave your car locked?

Did you check the door pockets?






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Doubt someone took her unless you left doors unlocked. Doubt she went out the window. Keep looking. Bet shes in the corner balled up tight somewhere. I would try putting a rat in front of each area.
I dunno about your air vents, but mine aren't even close to being big enough for a ball python.

Car was locked, but even if it wasn't, I still have the bag she was in. I don't think someone would open the bag, take the snake, and then put the bag back lol That's why I'm thinking she crawled out the crack in the window, maybe someone saw her and grabbed her? Not sure, highly improbable though. I just sat in my car for 30 mins with silence. I'm thinking she's in the dash board, but it could be just my mind wishing shes in there and creating false noises in my head haha. I took out the passenger side seat, tried to get a peek under the carpet there, no luck. I gotta take out that dash board tomorrow. Worth a shot. Other than that I've looked high and low, so I think I'm totally SOL. I can try the rat idea though! I just hope she survives the night and it isn't too cold, or if it gets too hot tomorrow afternoon grrrrr :-/