Found my escapee! Just can't reach her. She's under the hot water heater.

Good Luck! I'm sure you will get her soon.

Still working on fishing her out. I managed to get a nasty tag from her today. Drew blood and she was hissing up a storm.

She must love it under there.

It was 95 degrees in my house due to the AC being off. I really hope I can get her out soon! We are all melting.

I was thinking a few 10 lb bags of ice propped up on the side of the heater tank and a warm hide elsewhere in the closet tonight.

How about a hide really close to the water heater? Even it if gets cold she might not want to venture out of such a safe location, she might just hunker down and wait it out unless there is an easy warm place to get to.

Can you take a picture of the scenario? Perhaps if we had a better idea of what it looks like we could provide some other ideas.

At this point you might have to get someone to help you remove the water heater and get him.

Update:
I called a handyman a few weeks ago to move the hot water heater for me, however he didn't think he would be able to move it without injuring her with the way she wedged herself around the legs and the way the utility closet was set up. So i have had to wait her out. So she's been my closet snake the last month. I set her up all comfy in there with a heating pad and water dish.

Well tonight I finally managed to retrieve her!

I've tried tempting her out with food several times and it finally worked. I tossed a few handfuls of dirty rat bedding into the closet and when I noticed her poking her head out I started zombie dancing a dead rat juuuust out of her reach. Literally inched her out bit by bit. Until she was completely out. Then I tossed a towel over her and scooped her up. She was not pleased about being caught.
Huffing and puffing and striking up a storm. She complained the whole time she was slithering into her tub.

But she is back where she belongs. Her means of escape has been identified and corrected. Once she settles back into captive life I'll get her a really plump rat.

Now I will reward myself with a glass of chocolate milk and sleep :)

Awesome!

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Congrats! That was a long journey '