The escaped piebald thread

So I figured I'd log this on the off chance I do find her, maybe it'll help someone in the future. I know I've been reading and ton of lost snake threads and wishing I'd find her in the places other people have.

She escaped the night of 3/28 in the living room of my apartment. She's still missing. As of yesterday I have a kritter keeper with two mice, a heat mat, a hide on top of the mat, and flour in a line in front of the fridge. I saw a smooth zig zag line in the dust under the fridge the morning after her escape. The temps have dropped with the rainstorms all week so I don't think she'll be moving much. I've added a space heater oscillating in front of the fridge to push the mouse smell to her (I think she's there anyways) and to encourage her to move with the heat.

Staking it out tonight on the living room floor with garbage bags against various walls and under the couch so I can hopefully hear her move if she does. Tomorrow I'll be setting up the soda bottle traps. Didn't get around to doing that today. The living room, kitchen, and bathroom have been torn apart item by item. The boys room has been rifled through twice (lots of stuff in there but I went through everything). My room has been inspected even though even with pushing down on the carpet I'm sure her head would get smooshed trying to fit through.

You'd think being half white and the brown carpet this would of been an easy search. Hopefully she didn't make it out of the apartment somehow.

dam good luck .. I lost my boy pastel and didn't find him for like 2 or 3 weeks later he snuck back into the snake room and was behind the rack stuck in between 2 storm windows with a horrible stuck shed on him .. but hes great now .. I thought I lost him for good tho .. the screen door to the porch was open and it was summer here I thought he went outside and was gone .. funny I had to move the rack the day I did and I didn't even see him someone was in the room with me and seen him and was like is that one of ur snakes ...

good luck on ur search ... sometimes there right there .. or if u think shes under the fridge she may have got stuck so I would drop the fridge and look under it

Whenever I have had a runner I find them within 10ft of their cages. I don't know if this is the norm but it has been pretty consistent for me.

See I keep hearing stuff like that. I never get normal snakes though. When Allure got out he went under my door, all the way down the hallway, under my parents door, and positioned himself in the blankets that covered the little dog crate. Apparently the dog didn't sleep very well that night. :P

No luck last night. I think I'm going to have to sleep on the couch instead of the floor though. I've got bad hips and they're killing me this morning. I didn't think she'd move last night though since it's freezing in here. I tend to prefer the mid/high 80s too.

Best of luck. Have you tried moving the fridge to take a peak underneath and inside the "guts" of it?

Yep. We had the fridge moved out for two days and I checked it every time I walked by. I'm thinking of taping the fridge doors shut and having someone help me lay it on the side to see up in there better.

Hope you find her soon.

You should really find a way under the fridge. They put off a good deal of heat, perfect for her to crawl up and hangout. if you seen evidence she was in the area, start looking into the appliances(Fridge, dishwasher, oven ect).

I've had two escapees, one was found under my dresser (twice) and another was found in q small box of miscellaneous petsupplies iI keep in the closet. Good luck!

Making my rat rack and heard a plop in the wall heater. She's above the wall heater, not in a pipe, and we can't get to her. Grrrrr.

Nothing a sawzall can't fix! Lol. At least you're a step closer I guess. :)

Rob

My roommate pulled the outer frame of it off. My dad came over and dismantled the whole thing and was able to pull the top metal portion she jammed herself into down so I could grab her. (it was the piece that holds the pipes above it in place and the coils below it) It was a fight to keep a hold of her because I couldn't fit my entire hand in the gap. She was hissing and twisting like crazy and wouldn't let go off the metal in the back. Got Rinsed her off and she's now white again and eating a mouse. I'm so freaking happy. I really just want to run outside screaming it to the entire world.

A very disgruntled and dirty pied girl.
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Sounds like you totally ruined her fun adventure! Glad you found her though.

Congrats! I had been following this thread. I feel like i just read BREAKING NEWS!

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Yay! I'm sure it's such a relief. And now you can sleep tonight.


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Thanks guys! I wish I'd of taken pics before they put the heater back together. Where she was was just crazy. To get up there was a vertical climb around the heater. I wonder if she was up in the wall for a while. She wasn't in the actual heater and we don't even have it hooked up to run it. It's one of those really old dangerous ones. It was super drafty up there. I'm just amazed she went for that area when there were so many more hiding spots around where she escaped. Heck the mini fridge with the warm motor was only two feet from her cage. I'm throwing that 20g out and she's in the other half of the T8 (Allure on the other side of that one).

I'm just so freaking happy. I've been super cranky whenever people would ask me if I found her (which was at least five people a day). It's like no no I haven't. Trust me I'd be bouncing around telling everyone. My boyfriend and roommates have put up with me crying, digging apart everything and looking through their things, and me whining for the past four/five days. Definitely making it up to them. And I can't thank my dad enough for getting that entire thing apart. I'm so glad she happened to plop down (from I assume up in the wall to on top of the heater) when we were in the living room.

One thing is for sure I'm paranoid as heck about the enclosures now. Those T8s have the keys in them now, tubs I've triple check are all the way pushed back, and the clown girl's tub for sure has it's handles latched. Never want to go through this again.

So glad you found her!!!!

Glad you found her. It is nerve-racking, to say the least, when you lose one.

Rob

Wow, I'm so glad you found her!

They are little escape artists, especially at that size! When my kingpin was about that big he squeezed out of his tub, and the gap was no more than a quarter inch at most. He did have a bunch of pink lines on his belly and back at his thickest part, so I'm sure it was a long and difficult squeeze. He was close by behind a dresser, but it still freaked me out. I ended up moving him to a very secure little viv I have. He's back in the tub now but way too big to get out at this point (he's about 800g now).

I've had my mojo boy escape when I used a glass tank, found him in a shoe box tucked away in my closet. Tough experience especially when you found him above a heater! Glad he is ok.

Glad you found her Marrissa. :gj:

Steak dinners and/or beer for your dad and roomates. ;)

Yay! Glad you found her! Snakes are amazing explorers. I'm still trying to figure out how mine managed to get on my kitchen counter one night.