Loose snakes

I was wondering how many people here actually has lost a snake? I'm 29 and was able to start keeping snakes around the age of 9 and I have never had an escapee. I was reading quite a few posts on forums about how many people can't find their snakes. So just how common is it? I had a breeding pair of tokay geckos get out and gone missing for 18 months but never a snake. I did eventually find the tokays under the refrigerator I found a baby tokay under the couch one day and one hanging on the inside of a closet door and a baby on the side of a fish tank. So over the course of 18 months out the produced at least 3 eggs and they hatched. We just found a baby under the couch last night.

A ton of times! 99% of the time they go under the computer or into the closet.

I have lost 2 baby corn snakes over the last 3yrs.The first was 3yrs ago and the other was just a couple months ago.To this day they remain escapees and wanted :8:

I guess I have to consider myself very lucky then.

My 1 has gotten out 2 times back to back....he got stuck between the rack and the wall the first night...the next night I closed the door to that room and found him under the computer desk the next morning....he hasnt gotten out again..although I cant figure out how he even got out to begine with...who knows.

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Originally Posted by TheAudOne

My 1 has gotten out 2 times back to back....he got stuck between the rack and the wall the first night...the next night I closed the door to that room and found him under the computer desk the next morning....he hasnt gotten out again..although I cant figure out how he even got out to begine with...who knows.

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Its because you are so mean to him:8: .Have you cleaned those windows yet today??:colbert: :rofl: :rofl:

I've had less than handfull of escapes and zero losses. Generally due to keeper error.

My male escaped one night on us. We didnt even know he had escaped though.
I woke the kids for school and my youngest who is very hard to get going decided she was going to crawl in our big chair and test my patience with her ( a morning ritual we just cant break) and she moved a backpack that had been left there and screeched very loud and then became speechless! I went running to her and she pointed trying to stutter the word snake, so I lifted the backpack and there lay all coiled up and cute Slinky. He had used a small xmas tree I set next to his house and made his way to the chair.

Ive only lost the one snake but he wasnt that hard to find as he was a 6ft boa lol , my fault entirly didnt check the lock on his viv when i went to change his water lol , i found him hanging off the ceiling light shade :rolleye2: with a smug look on his face

i kept my first bp in an ap cage for a while--the cage had a hole in the top of it for cords/lights and whatnot. this hole was seemingly too small for nellie to fit through but i covered it with a glass vase thing that was full of rocks and water and held some bamboo (very heavy). somehow though she mananged to get her nose far enough through the hole enough to push the vase off of the cage (BIG mess on the carpet) and she then squeezed herself out though the opening. she was found the next day wedged between the cage and the wall.

Knock on wood - I've never had an escape! Although I have forgotten to put clips back on two 15 quart tubs after a feeding and rushed back when I remembered 2 hours later and both were happily curled up in their warm side hides in each of their enclosures.

My first BP, The B*tch, got out, and ended up being found in a deceased state in our basement. It was winter, and we had her in the cage our BCI occupies now; sliding doors in front, and at the time a glass divider in the middle; had 2 BPs in there. It was my fault; didn't make sure the lid was shut.. she squeezed her way through a heating duct into the ductwork, broke a piece which fell to the floor, fell and slithered back up toward the warmth of upstairs; found her in the wooden eaves of the subfloor. Our basement is a dirt-floor affair; she had no chance; had it been summer though she could have gotten outside!! Needless to say we do not allow escapes anymore; haven't had one since that.

I had a snake lost!! A babie cornsnake. Poor babie never was found.But it was where corns were native so i think he may have had a decent chance.

I had a baby cornsnake lost and never found.It was very sad

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My female IJCP popped her lid on her plastic tub due to the way the lid clicked with the thermostat cord inside the container. (A couple of times the lid wouldn't click quite all the way.) This happened last year.

She was able to get out of her plastic tub twice, before she was moved to a different cage style.

The first time I cooled down the apartment, made it dark and quiet and walked around with a flashlight. I found her in my invert room.

The second time it was feeding day and I hadn't checked on her the day before. I was somewhat paniaced as I had no idea when she escaped, since when i went to feed her she wasn't there. I decided I would finish feeding the other snakes and then go looking for her. I turned around from feeding one of the snakes in the invert room to find her hanging out on the wire shelves and looking interested in food :)

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Originally Posted by Schlyne

The second time it was feeding day and I hadn't checked on her the day before. I was somewhat paniaced as I had no idea when she escaped, since when i went to feed her she wasn't there. I decided I would finish feeding the other snakes and then go looking for her. I turned around from feeding one of the snakes in the invert room to find her hanging out on the wire shelves and looking interested in food :)

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Haha, not THAT is a great story! Love it!!!

:laughing: she scared the crap out of me when I turned around :P

She could have tagged me from behind and I would have had no idea until she would have bite me :P

Frank's snake, Jeff, got out once. We had him in a ten gallon with a lid that lifted off... thought there wasn't enough room for him to squeeze between the lip of the cage and the screen but he managed it. Frank found him the next morning, curled up underneath the toilet... quite literally scared the poo out of him, lol!

only 1 escapee for me...it was my youngest girl (300grams). We left for a couple of hours and when i came back to check on everybody she was not under her hide or in the tank elsewhere. my couch was the closest area that I thought she would go and sure enough there she was. She looked pissed though that i found her. Almost like god why did you have to find me?!

I didn't clamp one corner of the cage, and when he got out he moved a total of 3 feet behind the door, which was the nearest tightest place he could find. I have had mice escape from a box, and had to think like a mouse to follow the wall all the way into my brother's room where he was walkin around, he didn't do too much walkin after that....:D


~mike

Over the six years that I've had Tuleo (My first BP) hes gotten out at least ten times. One time he got out while the babysitter was here (Luckily she wasnt TO afraid of snakes!) but my door was closed so he had to be in my room and I found him next to my dresser soon enough.
The last time he got out his cage is in our finished basement and we found him on the main floor of the house on the very top shelf of the bookshelf.

My brother's snake has gotten out a few times to and one time my dad reached into his desk droor to get a pen and instead pulled out a snake! It was like magic!
Another time we found him in the ceiling (Thats the only part of the basement thats not finished yet)! We had searched the WHOLE basement and we finally gave up and my dad looked up to think and there he was!

When my brother and sister had just gotten there first snakes my sister's got out and we couldnt find him for 2 months so my parents finally got her another one. Four days later we found her snake that went missing! Four days later! Then about a month later the second one that we got escaped and we never found him again.

Ever since we moved to the tubs we havnt had any get out though.;)

I've had two escape (one twice) and one get away from me.

The first was three years ago with a baby Cali. king. Put him in the feeding tub with lid, got bored (he was a nonfeeder that unfortunately didn't make it), walked away, came back, he was gone. LOL We searched all over the place, and then we finally looked under the dresser, which was like two feet away from the tub, with a flashlight, and there he was. It was such a miniscule gap, even seeing him was difficult, but we got lucky.

The second (and third) were both by my snow corn snake. The sliding screen was ripped a little when my fat cat sat on it one time, and my mom thought glue would hold it closed. Well, she was wrong. She (the snake :P) was found in the closet under some slippers. The second time he escaped was in a new lid, the kind that folds in half. Even with this heavy flourescent light fixture on top of it, he pushed up a corner and got out. I wake up the next morning, immediately see the corner pushed up a little, and I know exactly what happened. I check all around my room and I find him wedged in a PILLOWCASE, where he immediately started moving around.

Fourth, although not really an escape, was my sister's baby corn, which just went under the bed at 600 MPH and was recovered an hour later. LOL

i lost one of my white lipped pythons, still missing though, had him in a 10g at the time with screen and lock, but come to find out the glue holding the top tank ring on was no good and thats is how he went by-by.

not yet... i use my handy binder clips

luckily i havent had an escape but one time i caught my snake in the process of escaping lol after feeeding he started climbing out i had to use the restroom so i went then came back in and he was slithering towards under my bed lol he pushed the lid off the feeding pen

Um, what does "still on the lamb" mean?

Does it mean something like "Knocking on wood" or crossing my fingers and hoping it wont happen?

I jsut had a sanke get loose alittle corn...right after I posted above... Just my luck..lol. Im hoping I find him. Hes my buddy.

Our snakes have never attempted an escape. They're always outside of their cages most of the time. Our retic is a big boy, we let him out most of the time(but ofcours ehwile my Hubby and I are with eachother)and he just slithers around the house, but when we do let out our larger snakes we shut all bedroom and close all bathroom and closet doors. Its always easy to find a 14footer or our 9foot RTB. Because there is no hiding place thats not easy to find them at, lol.

"still on the lamb" on the loose, missing, avoiding capture.

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Originally Posted by BPGirl

Ever since we moved to the tubs we havnt had any get out though.;)

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Lol. I just moved my corns to tubs and in a rack and one has goetten out..lol... but i can say that the lid was alittle to loose. but i fixed that now.

When I had tanks, I had two escapes due to the tanks being converted from aquariums.

Since I have had my rack system, I have had absolutly no problems at all.. :)

Kish and Freddie are our Houdinis. *%&%&%&$&*#(# :mad: To date, Kish has escaped 5x (3 diff locations) and Freddie unscrewed the plug on the screen lid, and despite the weights, squiggled under the lights hood and escaped yesterday. I haven't found him yet, but except for a hole in the wall (I can't get to it to close it off :( ) in my bedroom, he'll probably turn up again. The last two times he's escaped he's hidden in Robin's room (where all the rats are).


Oreo's escaped 2x and we found her both times, luckily! Once was in the washer, she had hidden in some laundry I was sorting and the other in my closet across the room from her tank. I've since doubled the # of clips on the tank lid and she's doubled in girth so we haven't had any more problems.

Hera got out once, but that's b/c I forgot to snap the tub lid back down & attach the clips after feeding her. :oops: Found her stuck behind the other tubs. Sort of hard to hide HER, since she's 14.5# and about 5-6' long. :D

Frigging Freddie!!! *%*%*%*% He won't be able to unscrew the plugs again! I've used construction contact glue and glued them in. hee hee :devilish: But I'm hoping he turns up again. I'll check again in the morning when I get home.

We've found Kish and Freddie all those times by leaving the rooms dark, and then turning on the lights @ 3-4 in the morning.

(Should probably be "still on the lam" ) ;)

I have had escaped corns and an escaped baby ball before... I found the corns in my room that day and the ball outside that day. I've also had a boa push out of her tank that I found that day... There have been some times when I used to feed in separate enclosures that the snakes escaped from the feeding enclosures as well.

My most recent escape was by the same boa again, after I forgot to weigh down the lid to her tank. All escapes were preventable on my part and I'm just lucky to find them so quickly.

My male Carpet python got out one day, my dad was home and he had just put him back in his tank and didnt close everything, He pushed the lid up and was heading for some boxes in the living room when the dogs started going nuts, lucky my dad turned around and saw his tail disappear into a box and was able to get him back in his cage and make sure everything was closed and locked down. But other then that never had an escape.

i have yet to have a snake escape in the 2 months i've had them, them binder clips are helpful :)

I had a snake recently escape a closed tub. It was found a few minutes after it was discovered to be missing.

I have never lost a snake, luckily. *knocks on wood*. It must be such a horrible feeling.

I didn't secure the tub all the way, and my little dude got out and scaled my shelves in my closet, was on the the top shelf behind some books. I think I searched that room 10 times before I found him, the little rascal.

I had one escape, when I was 19. (sheesh has it really been 18 years already)
I didnt lose hom though, when I went looking for him, I went to the hallway and hewas slithering toward me. I fixed my error and havent had another escape.

what was my error, you ask? well I shall tell you.

I was TOTALLY new to the world of herpetology, and knew next to nothing. I knew they ate rats. so my friend worked at a pet store. i thought her snake was cool and wanted one. I wasnt told about not using heat rocks, so thats what I had for him. I didnt know to use some kind of bedding, and hides, and a water bowl.

needless to say, I shouldnt have owned a snake at that point, but I was relying on the "experts" to tell me what i should and shouldnt do. I got no useful help.

so I put in a heat rock, put a pillowcase over the lid (dont ask me why, I cant remember) and somehow he managed to get out through the pillowcase and through the space where the cord was on the top of the tank.

I got lucky and found him pretty quick, but he was later stolen and sold to buy drugs.