Woke up with a visitor in my room, totally freaked out.

So, I am sleeping soundly when I hear a couple of noises that startled me awake. I must have go e right back to sleep. I live in an apartment and the upstairs neighbors keep odd hours so I didn't think much of it. This being said my husband is out of town and I'm home alone. Then I hear this massive crashing right in my bedroom that shoots me awake. It sounded like pictures falling off the walls. I just know that I'm about to be killed. So I turn the light on my phone on and scan the room. See nothing. I get up and turn on the light to investigate and I see my 1500g normal male ball crawling near my dresser. He had been on top of my tall dresser and knocked off some stuff. I pick him up and go out my bedroom door which was cracked into the snake room. The door of this room is closed, with maybe a 1\4 in crack because it doesn't shut good. The snake is in a rack system and his tub does not seem out of place at all. I can see that he knocked the thermometer off of the rack sitting right next to his. So, did he crawl out of his tub, push it back and then shut doors behind him too? What a gentleman...
wow. I'm so freaked out right now. I've had snakes escape before but never from a rack. i did have him out of his tub last night for a little while, along with my pied, but I distinctly remember him getting too fidgety and putting him back in his tub. I swear I put him up but my husband thinks I could have left him out. If I did I feel like an idiot. But I really think I put him up. So I wake up in the middle of the night to strange noises and find that the culprit has no legs. Great. There is a small space, I mean a tiny space, between the top of the tub and the rack, but there's no way he squeezed through that. And I don't see how he could have gotten out the door of the room. I'm also worried that he could be hurt if the fell off of the dresser or the rack in the other room. He moved fine, nothing seemed broken etc. I just wanted to share that. Any ideas?

what kind of rack is it? I had a self made rack and had something similar happen the top bin was empty and inhad the bin out and was keeping some stuff on the shelf well my lesser figured out he was strong enough to lift the shelf up and squeeze out. nothing looked out of place.

Surprising. You live in Texas (as do I) first thing I'd have reached for before turning on any lights is my gun. Glad your culprit was only 1500 grams and not 150 kilos!!

All I know is that it someone that was 300 pounds broke into my house I'd have no problem kicking the ever living crap out of him! I think you should have to be in shape to rob houses. LOL

At least you found the guy, which is awesome. Very s trange circumstances and I'm curious as to just what happened.

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Originally Posted by Rawbbeh

Surprising. You live in Texas (as do I) first thing I'd have reached for before turning on any lights is my gun. Glad your culprit was only 1500 grams and not 150 kilos!!

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lol I had a gun right by the bed :)

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Okay, I may have had a couple of guns by the bed...still scared me to death though. Lol. Yes I am glad is was just Max (the snake's name), but I am still baffled as to how he ended up in my bedroom. The rack he is in is a homemade rack we purchased. It is pretty heavy duty plastic garage shelving rack so he could not have pushed the top up. But...if the tub was pushed back too far, there could have been a gap between the tub and the wall where he could have squeezed out. When I inspected the tub it didn't look like this was the case...but snakes don't need much. And he was obviously on top of the animal plastics rack next to him because he knocked stuff off. But this doesn't explain how he got through 2 closed doors into my bedroom. Granted the doors were just closed over and got shut where the lock would catch. If that makes sense. But Max appears to be in good health and genuinely upset that I interrupted his adventure.

I have had a female 3700gm girl slide her tub to very close to getting out on a feeding day. I was watching, so I know I didn't leave it open. I have a AP rack lidless clearly. I have drilled holes in the front of each tub and put a golf T in them so the tubs cannot side past the T. My little bugger has figured it out so if I leave the T out for long she has the tub moving... :P

One thing about these guys, they can squeeze through the smallest spaces.

I had a 3600 gram female get out of her tub, and was frantic searching for her. You'd think something 5' long and 6 plus pounds would be easy to spot in a bedroom, but I couldn't find her anywhere. I was to the point of tearing out my hair, when I thought to look behind the main rack, which sits a good 7" from the wall. No snake. As I was turning my head to back out of the corner, I saw a dark smudge behind the breeder rack, which is no more than 2" from the wall. It was her. Somehow a snake who is a solid 6" thick squeezed into a space 2" deep. And I almost had to dismantle the rack to get her out, because she had no intention of giving up her new hiding spot.

So if a 6" snake can squeeze into 2". If your boy is half her size, he'd need less than an inch to get out. That is pretty darn small. I am happy you found him so easily. Most people who loose one can't find it for days or even weeks.

Gale

Incredible creatures they are :D Truly master escape artists unfortunately for us..

He was cold and wanted to come snuggle you while your husband was gone! :) glad he's back where he belongs!


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All I know is that it someone that was 300 pounds broke into my house I'd have no problem kicking the ever living crap out of him! I think you should have to be in shape to rob houses. LOL

At least you found the guy, which is awesome. Very s trange circumstances and I'm curious as to just what happened.

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X2 but I might have just shot the 300 pounder and saved myself some work. Got to love the castle doctrine

He did it again. 330am. But this time I'm onto him. He was on top of his rack, and his tub was pushed all the way back out of the rack and against the wall. He managed to scoot his whole tub back. So I stuck something between his tub and the wall to keep him from pushing it back. Lets just hope he doesn't figure out how to push it forward before I get home and figure something else out.
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