You won't believe this

Last Saturday night I brought my pastel breeder male outside to crawl in the grass as I do ocasio ally with all my balls, and got sidetracked and forgot he was out and didn't realize I had left him out until Sunday afternoon. Well we looked everywhere in the ditch the field the bushes across the road everywhere and had given up on him. I've been pure sick thinking how it was all my fault that he was going to die from the on coming cold weather. When I got home from work I went and checked the snakes as usual and went to the garage to check the rats and something caught my eye and as I looked down I realized my boy was sitting on the bag of bedding stretching to get to the mouse tub. I can't believe it he came back home. I am so happy and he looks fine but obviously hungry from missing last Sundays feeding. LOL

1.1 pastels, 1.0 lesser, 0.1 spider, 1.3 norm. 1.0 fire 0.1 RTB 0.0 sav. Mon.

Ive never forgot a snake outside but i ha e forgotten onr on the couch once. Im glad it ended well. How much cooler would it have been if you foumd him with a fat belly already

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Originally Posted by ironpython

Last Saturday night I brought my pastel breeder male outside to crawl in the grass as I do ocasio ally with all my balls, and got sidetracked and forgot he was out and didn't realize I had left him out until Sunday afternoon. Well we looked everywhere in the ditch the field the bushes across the road everywhere and had given up on him. I've been pure sick thinking how it was all my fault that he was going to die from the on coming cold weather. When I got home from work I went and checked the snakes as usual and went to the garage to check the rats and something caught my eye and as I looked down I realized my boy was sitting on the bag of bedding stretching to get to the mouse tub. I can't believe it he came back home. I am so happy and he looks fine but obviously hungry from missing last Sundays feeding. LOL

1.1 pastels, 1.0 lesser, 0.1 spider, 1.3 norm. 1.0 fire 0.1 RTB 0.0 sav. Mon.

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your so lucky its unreal lol

WOW! That's luck. lol

Glad he came back.

rhodent colonies produce warmth and smell tasty :)

i think you got an exceptionally smart BP there.

Wow!!! Very lucky! Don't know how many times you'll get THAT lucky, though! Make sure you're very extra careful for now on!! I'd hate to see you lose one of your pets!

Wow. Got one back that was lost outside. That is amazing, hell I lost a Corn inside 4 months ago and have not seen any sign of it.

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Originally Posted by KING JAMES

Wow. Got one back that was lost outside. That is amazing, hell I lost a Corn inside 4 months ago and have not seen any sign of it.

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lol rip your couch apart yet?

Glad he came back and you were able to find him

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Originally Posted by southbay54

lol rip your couch apart yet?

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I have ripped about everything I could think of apart LOL

You definitely got lucky on that one. I never leave my snakes unattended outside, if I even take them out. A hawk would be a real issue around here.

I once laid down on my bed with a snake while listening to my favorite talk radio station and ended up falling alseep with my pastel girl on my chest. when I awoke she was comfortably coiled up under the covers with me enjoying a nice warm 98.6 degree cave.

I can't believe I lost him like that I felt so bad I wasn't going to say anything about it because I felt so dumb but I decided to post because it ended up so good but I learned a lesson.

1.1 pastels, 1.0 lesser, 0.1 spider, 1.3 norm. 1.0 fire 0.1 RTB 0.0 sav. Mon.

Im glad to hear it turned out alright! They always end up popping up where/when you least expect it. Found my roomates argentinian boa in a pot one time. It is like 8 feet lol!

Happened to me once, my lesser girl got away from me. It took her 3 months to turn up. I felt awful. But then one evening she popped up in my garage and I finally got her back where she belongs. She was so skinny it was sad, but happily I have plumped her up very nicely. She has never refused a meal since! Yesterday she actually ate two small rats, hers and one that another one of my snakes didn't want. She looks like a cross between a ball python and a bowling ball now!

Wow dude you got sooooo lucky!! But I'm glad he decided he was hungry and found his lunch in the garage.

The same happened with my 15 ft burm but i turned to grab my phone answered i got tied up in conversation I lost track of time I turned around and she was gone I looked everywhere outside I didnt find her I was heartbroken I went back inside to turn off her heat lamp to find that she came through the window and put herself in her own enclosure. Sad enough she died a few weeks later from a tumor.:(

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Originally Posted by ironpython

Last Saturday night I brought my pastel breeder male outside to crawl in the grass as I do ocasio ally with all my balls, and got sidetracked and forgot he was out and didn't realize I had left him out until Sunday afternoon. Well we looked everywhere in the ditch the field the bushes across the road everywhere and had given up on him. I've been pure sick thinking how it was all my fault that he was going to die from the on coming cold weather. When I got home from work I went and checked the snakes as usual and went to the garage to check the rats and something caught my eye and as I looked down I realized my boy was sitting on the bag of bedding stretching to get to the mouse tub. I can't believe it he came back home. I am so happy and he looks fine but obviously hungry from missing last Sundays feeding. LOL

1.1 pastels, 1.0 lesser, 0.1 spider, 1.3 norm. 1.0 fire 0.1 RTB 0.0 sav. Mon.

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Irresponsible and if you can forget a pet like that ,don't mean to sound harsh but you shouldn't own any...

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Originally Posted by NYHC4LIFE8899

Irresponsible and if you can forget a pet like that ,don't mean to sound harsh but you shouldn't own any...

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now thats a bit rude since the distraction was unspecified. like the legendary bumper sticker that is banned on this forum due to the bad word filter says: "**** happens". The distraction may have been an accident putting a relative in jeopardy, or a childbirth out of predicted scedule, or an arrest, or any number of things. a while back friends of mine got evacuated by force for 36 hours because of a bomb, and because attempts to defuse it failed, it had to be detonated in the middle of the city. "excrement happens".

Dont be so harsh in your judgement if the cause of the distraction is unspecified.

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Irresponsible and if you can forget a pet like that ,don't mean to sound harsh but you shouldn't own any...

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What a jerk. He obviously knows he made a mistake.. last thing he needs is a comment like this. Go troll for something else somewhere else.

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Irresponsible and if you can forget a pet like that ,don't mean to sound harsh but you shouldn't own any...

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Mistakes happen. I'm sure you will make one. Give it time. You've owned a snake for all of what? 3 weeks???

You can bet it won't happen again. I'm just glad it turned out good I really was heartbroken at the thought of losing him he is a sweet boy and that's why I let him have his little walks at night he loves it.

1.1 pastels, 1.0 lesser, 0.1 spider, 1.3 norm. 1.0 fire 0.1 RTB 0.0 sav. Mon.

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Originally Posted by ironpython

You can bet it won't happen again. I'm just glad it turned out good I really was heartbroken at the thought of losing him he is a sweet boy and that's why I let him have his little walks at night he loves it.

1.1 pastels, 1.0 lesser, 0.1 spider, 1.3 norm. 1.0 fire 0.1 RTB 0.0 sav. Mon.

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Oh, I bet you were heartbroken! I'm so happy it turned out well for the little guy, and he is back home safely. :-)

This is probably a stupid question (I'm new to all of this, just got my first snake yesterday).. But if you take a snake outside, can't they get away from you pretty easily? I know wild ones are pretty quick.. Or is it easy to catch them again because they're tame??

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This is probably a stupid question (I'm new to all of this, just got my first snake yesterday).. But if you take a snake outside, can't they get away from you pretty easily? I know wild ones are pretty quick.. Or is it easy to catch them again because they're tame??

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What kind of snake did you get? BP's are normally pretty darn slow and don't move that quick. Corn snakes I have seen move pretty darn fast, and I think Garter snakes are even faster! But if you monitor them closely you shouldn't have a problem with them getting away. Sorry OP not bashing you lol.

I just got my first colubrid today. And oh boy is she lightning fast! Makes me appreciate how slow my ball pythons are. Ahaha.

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Originally Posted by satomi325

I just got my first colubrid today. And oh boy is she lightning fast! Makes me appreciate how slow my ball pythons are. Ahaha.

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What did you get?

@OP - That's great that you found him. I bet you won't ever make that mistake again :P.

When I first read the topic I was like, oh yea I will, try me. lol.

I say you got super lucky on him more worried about his belly lol.. I had a corn that got into the heating vents and I still have him but for 3 months i was like oh man when the dead smell going to start cause it was middle of winter and trailers are no the greatest warm area.I actually dropped a crews for a computer into the vent while working on the pc and was using the mirror and flashlight to see which way it rolled. Out of the corner of the mirror I saw the yellow in him and was like oh that were he died, only to get bitten by him trying to grab my hand for food. ( he was living off the wild mice for 3 months cause he was just as fat as before he went missing.) the only problem was he lost about 2 inches off his tail to frost bite. but he still with me today at about 20 ears old if not older.

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What kind of snake did you get? BP's are normally pretty darn slow and don't move that quick. Corn snakes I have seen move pretty darn fast, and I think Garter snakes are even faster! But if you monitor them closely you shouldn't have a problem with them getting away. Sorry OP not bashing you lol.

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I got a ball python :). A het ghost female, about 6 wks old. I found an awesome breeder at a reptile expo my bf "dragged" (more like nudged) me to. I've wanted one for years but my mom is deathly afraid of them so I kinda gave up on it. But my bf talked me into getting one, and I'm psyched to finally have one.