A crash in the night....!

It was about three AM this morning; my boyfriend and I were fast asleep. All of a sudden, a crashing sound is heard; breaking glass. My boyfriend jumps outta bed and yells "WHOS HERE?" He was about to grab for the shotgun!
Well, we turn on the lights and go in the living room. I have a curio cabinet that has (or HAD, lol) a nice lamp with a pretty glass lampshade thing on it. It was lying on the floor, being slithered on by Ringer our rescue-case male.
How he got out is anyone's guess. I have him in one of those big "under the bed" type rubbermaids, and had the lid duct-taped in the center part, since the container's fasteners are just on either side, not in the center. Somehow he managed to snap the tape and slither out.
I am only thankful that he did not encounter our cat on his rendezvous. I have since put a very heavy item (my boyfriend's autoclave, used to clean tattoo needles) on the lid for the time being to weigh it down.. Yikes, what a fitful night/

Did ringer get cut by the glass. Your lucky in a way that he broke the lamp other wise you would have had a time trying to find him.

Glad he's ok!! :D Too bad about the lamp though. :cry:

Glad you caught him quick! Heck of a way to find out he was out, though.

Hahahaha, that's priceless.

OHHH, I can picture my hubby's reaction if Dobby got out. Ummm, shotgun probably would not be put away, and probably would still have been used on culprit. Hubby said he thought my snake was cool, and he did hold Dobby, however, he held it like he was still terrified of it but wanted to put on a brave face in front of his half-his-size wife. I swear the way he held it, I was convinced the hairs were standing out on the back of his head, and made mine stand out watching him.
Any of you guys ever NOT been scared of an animal, then suddenly became scared after someone else's reaction? I went to buy Ivan, my rose hair tarantula and I didn't think anything of it, until the people at the petshop acted scared. I was like what is wrong with you guys, you said it wasn't poisonous, and he was like, well his bite still may hurt. So for a week I was scared of him, now I am not, but man it took a few days.

Maybe next time your snake gets out and it gets a bit bigger you will have to worry about it making a hungry encounter with you're cat, rather then your cat making an instinct attack.. All the more reason to keep your snake appetite under control. Reminds me, couple years ago in one of my old apartments I had a neighboor who was breeding cats and had a litter of kittens and her husband had a thick 5ft ball python which got loose occasionaly. 1 morning I had a talk with her husband and he told me how his python got loose and the same time they were missing a kitten. He told me he never told his wife but he noticed a distinctive lump in his snakes belly after he tried feeding it a rat the same day.. Perfect example of mother nature's circle of life ;] but keep your hungry snakes away from your loves kittens or cats.. or you might be stuck with a stubborn snake refusing mice and rats, and with an appetite for your felines.

BP's actually do consider cats as food. Monty struck at my cat when I put it in his cage for fun. And one time he struck at her face.

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Maybe next time your snake gets out and it gets a bit bigger you will have to worry about it making a hungry encounter with you're cat, rather then your cat making an instinct attack..

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The bad thing is, this snake is adult-sized. I had him in the rubbermaid with the lid duct-taped in the center, but he was so strong he broke the duct tape. I guess it was my ignorance for thinking this was impossible! And it was the good, thick duct tape, mind you.
Now with the autoclave sitting atop the rmaid, there is no way the thing can push his way out. He is a big fat male, but I know he cannot get out now.
The snake did not actually break the lamp, according to my boyfriend, He picked the lamp up to get to the snake, and dropped it once he had the snake. So it is his fault!!!
NO more BP escapes for me.

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Originally Posted by The_Godfather

BP's actually do consider cats as food. Monty struck at my cat when I put it in his cage for fun. And one time he struck at her face.

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Tell me you didn't do that, that you're just kidding. That's awful for both of them!


And Ginevive, you can avoid the possibility of the autoclave getting knocked off or the enclosure plastic cracking from the weight of it if you use clamps, bolts and wingnuts, toggle bolts, or even appropriately-sized bungee cords to secure the top. There are a zillion ways to secure a Rubbermaid type enclosure, and not nearly as many ways to secure an aquarium with a screen top.

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Originally Posted by The_Godfather

BP's actually do consider cats as food. Monty struck at my cat when I put it in his cage for fun. And one time he struck at her face.

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Haha, i guess that explains why Amber will just stare out of her hide at the cat, whose favorite hangout is near the snakes cage. Thing is though, I wonder if she really associates the cats with food. The whole apartment must smell like cats to a certain extent because they roam free all day, and I take amber out all the time without her going into the hunt mode that she goes into when a mouse is around.

A Nice good sized cat must be a delicacy for a mouse/rat eating snake. I have cats as well and it seems that all my snake and cat do when they make eye contact is watch each other for a long period of time. My cat wants my snake, and my snake wants my cat :?

Snakes and Cats don't mix in my opinion. One will eventually end up eating the other! If its a burm or retic or something along that line, its not even a competition :roll:

Sadly, no I'm not kidding. It was a 5x2x2 cage so it was roomy and I thought it'd be fun.

What was I thinking, lol. The cat wasn't harmed.

I'm glad neither one was harmed, but I'm sure it was stressful for both of them. I hope the one trial satisfied your curiosity.

Meechie's litterbox is in the basement along with the boys tanks. I have caught her many a time sitting and staring into their tanks although she finds Nanners alot more fascinating than Bob.

She likes to watch Cricket (The Mrs's Leopard Gecko) alot too as well as his feeder crickets kept in a cricket keeper. She is an older cat but she is a good girl and we keep everyone seperated.

There was one time not long after we had Bob I had him out in the living room he was crawling around and in a laundry basket. Well she came over to check him out she was only sniffing and so was he. We thought she would sniff him and leave but she ended up bopping him on the noggin.

She has no front claws so everybody was ok but we learned our lesson real quick after that.

My cat Jezebel loves to watch the geckos and her absolute favorite thing to do is watch them hunting their crickets. Before I got the Kricket Keeper, crickets would escape sometimes when I was trying to put them in the shake'n'bake bag and she'd help me find them for recapture.

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Before I got the Kricket Keeper, crickets would escape sometimes when I was trying to put them in the shake'n'bake bag and she'd help me find them for recapture

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Lol Marla.. When a couple of my feeder mice got out in the house my cat Tiger brought all 4 of them on my moms bed.. there necks were snapped and really no good for feeding but w/o him I think I would have a generation of mice running around my house for a long tiem to come. :mrgreen:

Yep, when I was in the process of switching one of my balls over to frozen/thawed, he ate one mouse and turned down the second, then while I was putting him away the other cat (who recently moved to my mom's house) decided the second mouse was his. I did make him eat his outside, though. :lol:

LOL, Cat Needs are funny =]

A friend of mine had a bp that decided not to take a feeder mouse. Went ahead and let the cat give it a try. Cats are so brutal when it comes to things they prey on. They immobilize it of injure it just enough that they can't get away from it, and keep it alive for a bit longer to play with it and practice their hunting skills....

Thats true.. I have watched my cat hunt a mouse and they do exactly how you put it Elevate.. They like to play with there prey before snapping its neck and killing it.

I think this pic fits this thread nicely....LOL

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Lucy and Atreyu. And it would be nothing without Godfathers text adding abilities. ;)

That ball looks pretty healthy and thick.. you give him rats already.. or are you still on mice..

My cat Inky usually ignores my BPs, because they are so damn inactive, and when they come out at night, the cat is asleep at the foot of our bed :)
One night I heard squeaking in our room. I jumped out of bed, snapped on the light and found Ink had a small mouse in between his paws. Inky ran, and I grabbed the mouse by the tail (kinda stupid, it could have had rabies) and the thing was still alive. I put him in an old tank for the night, and in the morning I let him go down the road. I could easily kill a mouse if it was running through my house, or if it's destined to be food for my snakes. But this one was too freakin cute!
I would have used this one for snake food, but it was wild, and who knows what parasites it could have had.

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Originally Posted by maniac

That ball looks pretty healthy and thick.. you give him rats already.. or are you still on mice..

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He's a rat eater...when he isnt off feed.... :?

aw man is he off feed? I'm sorry to hear that - I always feel sympathetic when these BP's don't feed - even though we all know... (say it with me now)

"It stresses us out more than them" - perhaps that should be the BP.net slogan lol. :)

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Originally Posted by JamminJonah

aw man is he off feed? I'm sorry to hear that - I always feel sympathetic when these BP's don't feed - even though we all know... (say it with me now)

"It stresses us out more than them" - perhaps that should be the BP.net slogan lol. :)

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Yeah...he's been on strike since September. And I'm going to have to wait another week to try again, because I just moved him into a new enclosure.

I like the slogan... ;)

Can anyone tell me why there is no mouse-flavored cat food out there? :)

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Can anyone tell me why there is no mouse-flavored cat food out there?

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Mice have no particular flavor like fish or lamb. Its also for the main reason that cats dont
eat mice they just hunt and kill them for there own amusement. I dont think taste is a factor
when it comes to them slaughtering these little guys but I if it were to be an artificial flavor It wouldnt
be much a difference from the lamb, chicken, or beef formulas.

Not that I'm questioning your information, but I'm curious how you came to determine that mice have no particular flavor?

I meant it like, A mouse wont have its own distinct flavor.. Like fish has a salty noticible smell and taste. Meat is meat and mice would tend to taste more like any type of chicken or beef. I read it in a National Geographical magazine about some tribe who hunted animals and they were talking about taste and said that Its the same as eating chicken and therefore I figured if they were to make a mouse flavored formula it wouldnt really matter because they wouldnt actualy put a mouse in catfood and the smell would be no different then the chicken,lamb,rice or beef formula.

Ah, ok. I wondered if you'd been tasting your cat's prizes or something. ;)

Imagine That :oops:

I did, and I didn't care for the idea, personally. :lol: