Those who've had missing snakes ...

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Originally Posted by Wizill

how else would snakes track? by sight? ;)

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Touche, Will... :)

I'm sorry, Marla. That really sucks. If I were in your situation, I'd put the warm hides out every night for awhile, and a mouse about once a week...just in case. I'll bet he surprises you one of these days! Hopefully in the not-too-distant future. ::HUGS::

Yeah, it really does suck, more because I care about the snake than because of his potential value as a breeder, but I do have to consider that too. I still hope he'll show up, but there's really nothing more I can do to search for him than what I have done. I will be leaving the warm hide out, and will probably put a mouse out on occasion as you suggested. Heck, maybe he'll be in the hide tomorrow morning. Thanks for the sympathy.

Last snake I was allowed to own as a kid was an Eastern Hognosed I had caught in Berkley Springs WV - kept him for almost a year and he grew and grew. One night he managed to knock the ~20lb stack of books off the top of his tank and disappeared. He turned up in the most unlikely place - and to this day I have no idea HOW he got there. He found my mom and that was the end of keeping snakes.

She's a tad paranoid and would always clean out the dryer vent (aluminum tube that runs the air outside) and when she popped it off he fell out and promptly puffed up his faux hood and hissed like hell. That rant went on for DAYS and I couldn't even keep a ringneck after that heh.

LOL! That's a great story, Smulkin!

OMG! Poor little guy must've been scared as much as your mom was. We used to have a nest of grackles in our dryer vent every spring. They'd make lots of noise every time the dryer ran and blew warm air over them. :)

My dad was always overwilling to let me keep herps and even bring me back stuff every now and then - but only because he refused to have cats/dogs or any free-range housemammals. Now that he's retired on his massive acreage he has swarms of dogs herds of felines and be damned if the old man didn't sart raising BEES. Course he is still the archtype of the "great white hunter" but man that's a 180. I owe all my interst and comfort with snakes to the old man though.

/tears up

:P

That's great that your dad stimulated you into interest in non-mammals. My roommate's late father was allergic to vet bills, but he had the local squirrels coming in his bedroom to eat crackers from his hand. Sounds like your dad is making up for what he missed out on before. :)

I was gonna suggest look on all your appliances for any small hole because he may have crawled in there
Did you look behind like bookcases shoved up against the wall?? even if it looks like nothing could get in there? The reason I am asking is Ozzy will crawl back behind my bookcase which is sooo tight against the wall I dont know how he fits then he will crawl way up the top if I hadnt seen him go back there I would never have look there
The insulation in your crawl space may very well be where he is it's dark and warm
Good Luck I will say a little prayer for the youngin's safe return

Yes, there is one free-standing bookcase and I looked behind it from top to bottom. The rest of the bookcases in the room are built-ins and there is no looking behind them without a lot of trouble with the landlord. We also checked behind the toilet & between the tank and wall, inside the bag of dog food under the bathroom sink, in between the desk drawers and desk shell, inside the drink cooler and blender, literally everywhere on that floor that it was possible for us to look without disassembling anything that didn't belong to us (the house). I'd pull down the insulation in the crawl space but I have a big problem with fiberglass plus it's cold in there and I think he'd be more likely to hide someplace warm.

Thanks for the good thoughts, though. I hope he'll turn up still, but with the coordinated posse effort failing, I'm afraid that may just be the last I see of him.

whats a grackle?