My coastal carpet got out!

I woke up this morning and went to check on her and she's gone. It was my fault not closing the lid all te way. She's small, about 2 feet long. How should I go about finding her? She disappeared from a carpetted room with the door shut. I've torn the room apart and can't find her anywhere. My only idea is make a warm humid spot and toss a rat pup in it near where her tank and the lamps are. It's a day or ap past feeding day and she just came out of shed so it may help?

Pull the stuff out of crevices and double check them for snakes, then put it in the middle of the room. That's how I've found mine when she escaped. They are often curled up in a shoe or someplace else that's cozy. put in in the middle of the room. Tiny, tiny crevises are where they are. Also high places because baby carpets are arboreal. If you still don't find her after that, then set up a little warm spot with a fuzzy or something. Try to keep the room generally warm se she doesn't get sick.

Good luck, I hope she turns up.

I was hoping she'd be under the tv. That's where my spider ball went last time but she wasn't there. I put a damp cloth in a boot in front of a heat lamp that's on one of the tanks. I'm going to put a fuzzy in there in a bit when I can get to the store. My room is about 75 degrees from all the lamps in it so she could be anywhere. I've literally torn the entire room apart.

Look up high. They like to climb.
Down in any vents.

path of least resistance

In and under everything.

I'm thinking she may have followed the heater piping into the wall. Which is right next to her tank. I have my cat hunting for her right now. Even though he's a bit (well a lot) slow he's hood at finding things.

why the **** would you put a cat after your snake? thats like putting mouse guts on your balls and putting it in a retics cage. you just dont do it! look for it your self and start learning to close the lid. from your comment you have done this before.......:colbert: hope she shows up though

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Originally Posted by nick654377

why the **** would you put a cat after your snake? thats like putting mouse guts on your balls and putting it in a retics cage. you just dont do it! look for it your self and start learning to close the lid. from your comment you have done this before.......:colbert: hope she shows up though

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I'm in the room with my declawed cat watching him. I really dont think there's much he can do any harm to the snake with me sitting two feet away from him. Look through some lost snake threads. A lot of others have done this with success. People make mistakes. Snakes get out sometimes.

My dog would never look for a lost snake, a rat how ever I don't think it would have the chance to get lost before she clames a new toy for herself. Good luck man snakes are good at causing headaches like this ha hope you find her.

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Originally Posted by volkswagen20v

I really dont think there's much he can do any harm to the snake with me sitting two feet away from him.

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Cats can still bite...and from having a young coastal carpet myself and seeing how small and wiry they are I wouldn't doubt a quick bite from a cat could do some serious damage to her.

Good luck finding her.

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Originally Posted by nick654377

thats like putting mouse guts on your balls and putting it in a retics cage. you just dont do it!

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Lmao! That might have to be my new signature! Thanks for the laugh I needed it. Can't quit smiling. The best part is I keep seeing Steve-o from jackass trying just that. Lol

I think what the OP meant was that they're watching their cat to see if it finds the snake. I've heard of tons of stories where people's snakes got out and their cats acting funny or being very fixated on one spot alerted them to their lost pet.

After all, a definition of "hunt" is "to seek out something with intent to capture; to attempt to find something".

I'm in a similar situation right now trying to find my male BP that managed to squeeze out under his tub lid. I haven't had much luck yet but I've tried putting out a heating pad, hides, and a thawed rat. I'm getting over being pretty sick and have a bad shoulder so tonight I'm gonna try and enlist some help moving my bed away from the wall so I can get a good look at the baseboard heating. I've been watching my cats too but trying to keep them out of the room where he escaped. I'm afraid they'll scare him from coming out. He's around ~230+ grams at this point and hopefully too big for my cats to want to try and mess with but I'm still worried they'll find him first and take a few swings at him.

Carpets are pretty skinny so I'd definitely check inside any little nook or crevice. I haven't tried it yet but I've heard people suggest putting a live prey item in a critter keeper or something to try and draw a snake out. Best of luck in any case. I know that the first thing I'm doing when I find him (and I'm still hopeful I will) is getting and securing a rack. :mad:

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Originally Posted by H.o.F.R

Lmao! That might have to be my new signature! Thanks for the laugh I needed it. Can't quit smiling. The best part is I keep seeing Steve-o from jackass trying just that. Lol

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i thought some people may like that. :D

My big Carpet girl like to push her tub out of the rack. She now gets locked in.

Found her on top of a ladder once :p

No luck yet? I've only had an escape once and found my BP in about 10 seconds. I don't know what it's like to worry about one all day.

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Originally Posted by xFenrir

I think what the OP meant was that they're watching their cat to see if it finds the snake. I've heard of tons of stories where people's snakes got out and their cats acting funny or being very fixated on one spot alerted them to their lost pet.

After all, a definition of "hunt" is "to seek out something with intent to capture; to attempt to find something".

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Years ago when I first got my corn (she was a sub adult) this is how I found her when she got out and had been missing for a week. My cats are really interested and like to generally investigate snake activity. But when they get close, the alien nature of the snake really freaks them out and they're scare of them. Even my baby balls lol.

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Originally Posted by TheSnakeGuy

No luck yet? I've only had an escape once and found my BP in about 10 seconds. I don't know what it's like to worry about one all day.

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A day? Haha How about 2 weeks?
Right before Christmas I was changing out my Anery Stripe's water dish and was away for about 1-2 mins. I came back and she was absolutely no where to be seen. I was dumbfounded - I often have the tub open for hours while I'm in the room and she never makes sudden movements. She turned up 2 weeks later. I think she got in the walls. Can't trust that sneaky snake for a minute!

Just to clarify these are the only 2 times I've ever had a snake escape ^ kinda makes it sound like it happens all the time lol

oh I hope you find her!

I just found her! I started pulling up the carpets around my walls and sure enough there she was. She was curled up under the carpet in front of a baseboard in my closet. Thanks for all the advice everyone. It's time to invest in a rack now.

Haha congrats man! She found a nice comfy stop to chill lol

Carpets under your carpets, oh my!!
She didn't get stuck by the tackstrip did she?

Glad you found her.

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Originally Posted by 3skulls

Carpets under your carpets, oh my!!
She didn't get stuck by the tackstrip did she?

Glad you found her.

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That's exactly what I was thinking. I looked her over a couple times and she didn't have a mark on her, thankfully. She tried biting me a few times when I found her. She must have liked her hiding spot.