Escapee found stories..

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Originally Posted by puddintain

How long ago did she go missing?

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I could never get an exact date out of my pet sitter, I think she was really worried I was going to flip or something(I didn't, I told her not to worry about it) when she told me and didn't even really tell me how she escaped so I'm only assuming she left the top open, but it's been over 2 weeks. I was gone for two weeks, got back last tuesday(the 7th) to find out the snake escaped :(

One time my crested gecko Squeegy escaped and was missing for three days. I looked for him everywhere, and where do I find him at 11pm at night?? On the female cage trying to mate with Lemondrop through the wire screen. :rolleyes::rolleyes:

HAHAHA.. those are some good stories.

I used to spend 2-3 hours looking for the snake or rodent escapees but now I sit and bait.

I do miss the tearing up furniture and looking everywhere then find them just staring at you in the face.

One of my breeder(pet) rats got loose and I woke up with it sitting on my pillow waiting for me to feed it.

Once my two pet rats escaped. No wonder they did, silly me left their cage open... But after half an hour on all fours looking under every piece of furniture in my flat, i noticed a little movement under the sheets of my bed...
Both of them lay there cuddled together, looking at me like "Hey man why are you disturbing us...:O!"

when i was a kid, i was in my bedroom sleeping. my mom was getting ready for work...i heard her start screaming, both of my california kingsnakes had gotten out and where in her bathroom. she thought they were rubber snakes i planted as a joke at first, until they moved.

she was/has never been afraid of snakes, it just startled her. i am glad she found them as i didn't even realize they had gotten out.

My other story im willing to share is i had about 30 borneo pythons sitting in their eggs in my incubator. they wouldn't come out for anything.

So i sat them on the kitchen table and the phone rang. I was gone five minutes if that, i came back in, and everyone of them had came out of the egg and was crawling all over my kitchen. i couldn't find one of them :(.

this leads me to believe that a tempature change triggers baby snakes to come out of their eggs...such as a mother python uncoiling around the eggs after they hatch....

interesting about the temp change triggering a hatch!

Ok I recieved a shipment of 5 baby Centruoides Margaritatus(Yellow morph) and I had them in the deli cups with a little bit of the Eco Earth bedding, well I had no clue that the babies were so light they could climb up the plastic, well needless to say 4 of them went missing, and OH BOY did I panic. They were 2i's(about the length of a pencil eraser) and so I grabbed my UV Flashlight and searched my room for them, nothing, nowheres. I had been gone for about 30 minutes, and the tops had been left open because I had no idea they could climb that little deli cup plastic. So after about an hour of searching and nothing turning up I just sat at the computer desk wondering. Then out of nowheres BOOM I see 2 little scorpions running across my bedroom floor, so I put them back in their deli cups and put the lid back on. Then I guess the idea popped in my head for me to check under my matress, as my lower sheet w/e its called that dangles to the floor touches the ground on some spots, and whatta-know there are the other 2. That would of been a bad outcome.

when i say sitting, i mean they had slit the egg and were just hanging out.

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Originally Posted by Neal

Ok I recieved a shipment of 5 baby Centruoides Margaritatus(Yellow morph) and I had them in the deli cups with a little bit of the Eco Earth bedding, well I had no clue that the babies were so light they could climb up the plastic, well needless to say 4 of them went missing, and OH BOY did I panic. They were 2i's(about the length of a pencil eraser) and so I grabbed my UV Flashlight and searched my room for them, nothing, nowheres. I had been gone for about 30 minutes, and the tops had been left open because I had no idea they could climb that little deli cup plastic. So after about an hour of searching and nothing turning up I just sat at the computer desk wondering. Then out of nowheres BOOM I see 2 little scorpions running across my bedroom floor, so I put them back in their deli cups and put the lid back on. Then I guess the idea popped in my head for me to check under my matress, as my lower sheet w/e its called that dangles to the floor touches the ground on some spots, and whatta-know there are the other 2. That would of been a bad outcome.

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Man, that is why I probably will never keep insects. Those things are way small. And if I lost one or some it would be a nightmare.

I had some Pachydactylus tigrinus - Tiger Gecko. These things are tiny. The ones I had were not full grown yet. They were about an inch if that. Well while feeding them my 7 year old cousin decided to grab one and not tell me. Later I check the cage and they were no where to be found. I wrote off my loses by the end of the day. Knowing trying to find a little thing that could be eaten by adult field crickets is almost impossible. Especially when the night temps outside are going below 65 farenheit.

About a week later I am outside the front of the house and see a tiny thing that I thought was just a bug moving on the steps. I take a closer look and there he was. What luck huh.

That is luck, im just glad I didn't get to find them while I was sleeping, that would of royally sucked. I later got stung by one of them anyways, well one of the adults I had already had.