Snake Escape

Hoping for the best and by no means meaning to bring up a sore subject if that's the case but any luck finding him or better yet catching him and triple padlocking his enclosure?! Hope things worked out and you caught him with no ill effects.

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Originally Posted by cecilbturtle

just my two cents but i wouldnt try the the tape thing. ive seen snakes wrapped up in tape and its really not good at all.....
another guy i knew lost a corn and found him about a year later in a closet. hungry and extremely dehydrated. i never thought hed make it but he did.

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The scotch tape thing would probably work well. I work for a pest control company and, while we do NOT treat/trap/kill snakes, we will sometimes find sticky traps with different types of snakes on them. Our technicians just use veggie oil or mayonaise to get the snake off the trap. They can also use warm water and dip the tape in it; it worked on a garter snake we found a few weeks ago on a trap.

And as for the corn that was found a year later, I would seriously, SERIOUSLY cry. I would feel so terrible and SOOOO relieved!!! If my corns got out, they'd be toast. I live in a 485sqft studio with 2 cats, 2 balls (heeheehee) and 2 corns. If one forn got out, my cats would be dining on a meal. :(

Thanks for the info, Sheena, about the veggie oil/mayonaise. I'd never heard or thought of that. As to a snake escaping, you're not kidding! My wife's 90 pound black hellbeast of a Labrador-God-only-knows-what-else mix wants nothing more than to just mouth my corn to death, lol! I really don't think he'd mean to kill it, he's just a mouthy dog (not mouthy like that, although his attitude lately... :D) and just likes to chew on things. I'd freak! Thankfully our cats live outside, otherwise... Hoping for the best with her catching him sans any issues.