W00t w00t w00t!!!!

:lol: I'd like to thank the academy ...

No, really, I'd like to thank Will for bringing me luck and Neal for bringing my children really long fireworks and my mother for teaching me better than to give them really long fireworks!

I just finished chatting with Will -- I mean just finished, when I realized that there was a snake slithering across my foot!!!!

That's right, the prodigal son has come home!! Now I need to find a bible to figure out what his name is supposed to be.

Oh and the fireworks? I have a really deep old desk and I had to pull out two drawers and could not reach all the way to the back of the desk, so I ran around looking for somewthing to pull him out with and found the fireworks, a matched set. They worked beautifully! So now he is home in his little enclosure, two hides, water and heat, just like he's supposed to be!!!

I am deliriously happy!!!!!!!!!!

definitely the best news i've heard in a very long time... what was i telling you??... "there's always hope".. great to hear it marla... i'm very happy for you.

Ohhhhh Marla!! That is so freakin' awesome!!! High fives and big hugs and jiggy dances!!!!

Congrats on finding your baby :D

Thanks everyone!! I am sooo delighted! I'm psyched! I'm wired! I'm .... dizzy.

AWESOME I was really really hoping he would return

Now show us some pics :mrgreen:

Thanks! If you look in my gallery, you'll see him when he arrived. I'll take pics of him and my new cresties toorrow! :D

Yay! I'm so happy for you! :D

That is the weirdest sucess story I've ever heard...

Marla,
Congrats! I was just wondering and praying that he would come back safe and sound and was so glad to see this post!
How long was he MIA?
That is great news, another success story:)

GRATS!

Almost two weeks he was missing! And if I were any less alert, I wouldn't have felt his light touch on my foot and he'd still be missing. Or if I'd gone to bed at a decent hour, LOL. By the way, John, the story gets weirder. While I was finding my missing snake after our chat, Will was finding his missing mouse. How about that for some timing?

I'm thinking of calling him Bo Peep, because that's who I felt like when I had him back.
"Little Bo Peep has lost her snake and can't tell where to find him.
Leave him alone and he'll come home, dragging his tail behind him."

:D

LOL! That's an excellent name, Marla!

It's not too girly? The kids thought the other snakes might make fun of him. :)

LOL...well, it can be like those pure-bred dogs...with long, efeminate names on their certificates...but they get called "Butch" for short. You can call him "Bo." That's a nice, masculine name....and save the " Little Peep" for official correspondance. :P

Marla, that's wonderful news, and an interesting story as well. I don't think the prodigal son was ever named in the bible, but a little research told me that the story is from the book of Luke. Not a bad name, and one the other snakes probably wouldn't make fun of. But Bo Peep is good too. If you call him Bo for short, you could just tell the other snakes he was named for Bo Duke, from the Dukes of Hazard. (OOPS - is my age showing?)

He was roaming your house for two weeks??? will they not get too cold living at room temp?? Im really glad you found him THATS AWSOME!!!

That'a good idea -- I could tell he other snakes he's Bo, like Bo Duke. :) They won't know he's really Bo Peep. :lol: And since DoH was filmed not too far from here, it's even more credible. Plus I got a DoH mousepad for my birthday. Now MY age is showing. LOL

And by all rights he should have been too cold at room temp, but if he was mostly hanging out near the snake enclosures, heating pad on the floor for him, and computer, he could have stayed pretty warm. But it is definitely AWESOME to have him back!

Hi - Congrats on finding your prodical son.
Hockeymom

Thanks Hockeymom. :)

Just thought I'd mention, Bo Peep ate an f/t adult mouse for me tonight. He "struck" and killed it quickly and dragged it around for 30 minutes or so before deciding to swallow it, but he got it down finally. I was relieved.

In the meantime, Hanover was making me think he wasn't going to eat at all. I offered him a re-thawed mouse Sunday and he turned up his nose at it, so I tried with a fresh f/t one tonight. He acted interested but didn't strike as my arm went numb making the mousie "walk" around the cage. Finally, I took out the mouse and he looked high and low for it, so I re-warmed it, got him moved to the "dining room" (was trying to feed him in his cage), and turned the puppeteer duties over to my roommate. When she was just about to give up, he finally grabbed it and did his thing. Total time elapsed from introduction to constriction: about 45 minutes. Sheesh!

LOL....that's a lot of effort! Have you tried just leaving him alone in the box with the mouse? Maybe all that activity put him off. But I know you've had Hanover for a little while, so you probably know whichever ways he prefers to eat. :)

Yep, Hanover will not eat unless his food dances for him. I have tried leaving food with him 3 times and he'll sniff it but won't eat it. Like he's saying, "I am not a carrion eater, lady." :) I'm just glad he finally ate after all that effort, to make it worth it.

No kidding.... I'm glad you and your roomie were rewarded! :)

I just found a young adult female that had been out for about the same time (nearly two weeks). I MUST get started on my new rack tomorrow as this is the third escape in 10 years from this old rack which needs retired (the shelves only come out about 2/3 of the length of the boxes). My basement is unfinished with sheets of insulation nailed to the concrete walls and sure enough she was between the insulation and the cold concrete (about 50 deg F). I had padded it down some time ago trying to feel her but didn't move a desk and missed a small spot near it's leg and that's where she was hiding balled up (moved the desk this time). I had hoped she made it up stairs where it's warmer but kept checking the basement right after sunset hoping she was warm enough to come out for a look around but apparently she wasn't. Didn't look at her too long on the way to a warm cage but she does have some respiratory infection of course. Will look her over better in the morning and see if I can get her into the vet for antibiotics. Not that it makes a difference but she was my only 50% chance het albino that I was actually breeding to my het albino male this year, now I'm just hoping she makes it. You could hang meat in my basement year around so it’s a particularly bad place for a tropical snake to escape.

I'm glad you found her, Randy.....I hope she has a quick recovery from her ordeal!

Yikes, Randy! I'm glad you found her. Send some good vibes Will's way so he'll find his escapee, too. What is it with these guys? And i hope she recovers well from her RI. Seymour is still working on getting over his and had another vet trip today.

awsome!Congratulations on getting your boy back!!!

glad he is home.......i always have the fear of Sixx getting out and into the recliner....right now i have a gallon vinegar jug on his lid. he tries to push it, but not quite big enough, yet...

Thanks, y'all. I'm glad he's home and he's eaten. He's also being kept in one of the locking tubs instead of one of the drawers, because they're harder to escape from. :) I hope you never have to worry about finding an escaped snake.

That's great!! I was hopeing he would come home soon. I've been checking your other post for an update but relized this was the right one. Congratts! :D

Oops, sorry about that! Yes, my little guy is home, hopefully to stay. :D

Very cool.

And no, the Prodigal Son is not named in the parable. In Hebrew, there are essentially two words for "son", though, "Ben" and "Bar". These are the "titles" associated with names, as in you'll see "Simon bar Jonah" and "David ben Levi". In the first case, it indicates that Simon is the firstborn son of Jonah, and hence the heir apparent, while David is the son of Levi, but not the firstborn or the designated heir.

Today's Hebrew lesson is brought to you by the letters Alef and Gimmel.

Thanks, Hoomi. I like to learn new things. I considered naming him "Prodigy" as a compromise, but woke up the next morning thinking about Little Bo Peep, so that's what I went with.

That's a very cool lesson, Hoomi! Thanks!