Escape

i just bought a normal female from the white plains show and she has escaped twice, i found her reading my books:rofl: on top of my dresser

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What kind of enclosure do you have her in?

under my big screen TV

Usually it happens when I forget and leave the latches undone. One time I woke up and my one snake was 90% out of his tank, lol.

One of my boas escaped once. I was very sick with the flu, and forgot to lock the cage back after I fed her. I found her about a half hour later about five feet away from the cage behind a dresser. The cages and racks that I have are escape proof when locked, or closed properly. Human error can always come into play though.

Everytime I see the word Escape...

I think

Ess-CAH-Pay!!!

ESCAPE!

Plus, where is 3 escapes? 1-2, and then 4-5....

Three isn't allowed?

I underestimated the escape capabilities of my 1st BP and he was never to be found after that breakout.

We had one "break out" here :D the lid was clipped like it was supposed to be, but I forgot to stack the books back on top (yah I said books)
After looking for 2 hours we found her in the under tank cabinet

I don't know how people let their snakes escape....

I've had both of mine for a year, and never had a scare. And I don't think I ever will. Get some locks for your tanks people, or get rid of the snake.

Go to petco, petland, petsmart, petwhatever and get some locks for your tank. They are cheap and can be very strong.

I put way to many times to count as off the top of my head I can't remember. I had two in a row just last week. The first time I didn't latch the cage all the way. The second was when the stinker pushed so hard that it popped the latch off (a homemade cage).


I am glad you have never had an excape, but dont look down your nose at those that have. Even the best cages and best intentions you can overlook, get sick and forget, or whatever.
With one or two snake you have a very small chance for something to go amiss. The more snakes you get the easier it is to over look.

I have always found my guys/girls and know where to look. Last week was the first time my beautie got loose. He was easy to find boy dose he like to climb, where my balls go for the same corner every time.

I remember the days when I just had 2 snakes, I never had a break out. Everything was perfect, but now that I have 13( counting my roommates) things happen. Especially if myself (or my roommates) dont hear the SNAP of the lids.

I had my big boy excape and to this day I can't figgure out how he got out. His lid was shut tight, no way out but he came and curled up next to me in the middle of the night (he is the only one that didn't go to the "normal" spot for the others. Guess he wanted to curl up and get warm.

Now that I think of it counting last week (after my car accident) I THINK I have had 5 but since I don't panic and rip my hair out, just look where they like to go it isn't a big deal to me.

I keep weights on top of the enclosure. No escapes yet, though attempts are frequent.

My son's corn snake escaped. At the time, my other son had pet mice (you know where this is headed) in a huge habitrail set-up with wheels and many many miles of tubes of trails and places for them to go. It was space themed and included a circular space restaurant where you put treats for the mice.

Well, sure enough, about a week later, we find the snake with three large lumps wrapped inside the circular space restaurant (of all places). The funny part was that the remaining mice were busy stuffing the tube trail with bedding so he couldn't get back down to get them. It was hysterical (for me, not my son that lost three pet mice.)

Recently, my tiny carpet escaped. I just transferred him into an exo-terra or something like that and didn't realize how junky the clips were and one snapped and he squeezed out. I was distraught. I love that snake. I found him chilling on my dh's large tropical plant, he looked so natural and comfortable there, like he really belonged there, it was a shame to have to take him off. When he gets a little bigger and I can keep track of him better, I have a feeling it will become his spot.

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Originally Posted by IguanaMama

My son's corn snake escaped. At the time, my other son had pet mice (you know where this is headed) in a huge habitrail set-up with wheels and many many miles of tubes of trails and places for them to go. It was space themed and included a circular space restaurant where you put treats for the mice.

Well, sure enough, about a week later, we find the snake with three large lumps wrapped inside the circular space restaurant (of all places). The funny part was that the remaining mice were busy stuffing the tube trail with bedding so he couldn't get back down to get them. It was hysterical (for me, not my son that lost three pet mice.)

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Lmao, That's really funny kinda feel bad for your son but nonetheless vary funny story, and also a vary good example on why people should allways make sure thay they lock there snakes up right after they handle them
:-).

I have 14 ball pythons and i have only ever had one escape, before i built the custom snake room in the garage i had 5 in my room my gf at the time took one of the yearlings out . . . she handled it for about 30 mins put it back(didnt properly close the latch) we went to bed i woke up in the morning checked on the snakes like i always do and noticed an open lid with no snake, i ripped apart my room lookin for it moving cabinets tossin mattresses movin everything out of the room after properly lookin trough it and then . . . . .the little bugger was sittin at the bottom of my empty laundry hamper curled in a little ball!!! every since then i have been super careful and if anyone wants to see one of my snakes i take them out and but them back so i know they arn't goin to escape . . .

however I agree that if you have more than a few escapes that your not properly taking care of your snake. Everyone knows that snakes are great escape artists and there are tons of lids and enclosure tops you can get to avoid this problem . . . if you cant care for ur pet them dont own ur pet!!!

I haven't had this happen to me yet. I only have one 6ft boa which never even tries to get out at all. I recently acquired a baby bp and I have her in a 12qt tub which snaps shut which I make sure that I hear both snaps before walking away. I'm sure that accidents happen and of course there are some snakes that just seem prone to be escape artists.

Ive been keeping snakes for many years and have never had one get out. I make sure thier cages are secure.

One escape with my BP, happened just last week, and found him 3 rooms away, I was at work all day, basking in the light of my kitchen window garden hanging in my 400 yo banzai.

I have special lamps and glass in that window plus a humidifier to keep the banzai in a perfect self sustaining atmosphere

Will never be able to figure out how he did it

The only perimiter breeches I've had is in my big tanks with dividers sectioning it off for 2 bps. I have a couple that manage to scale the wall and go cuddle with their neighbor. No actual escape though.

My 2 snakes are crazy escape artists. It almost seems like they've been working together to escape. A few days ago they pushed a lid off--It was duct tapped down on 2 sides and had 3 textbooks on top of it.

I was just plain amazed. Thats why I'm thinking about getting a cage with sliding doors.

Knock wood - four years keeping ball pythons and ~40 ball pythons and one tiny king snake - no escapes.

Once and it was a dumb mistake. We had an old gas stove, no pilot light, I let him slip away from me and when I grabbed him he was hooked to something and I didn't want to pull to hard. I knew he was in the stove, I took it apart, but still couldn't get to him. I waited for half and hour then there he was hanging off the top of the stove :rolleyes:

Other than that no escapes, they are in tubs in a home made rack so there's no way they can open a lid.

found mine in my sisters room after a week of searching he found himself nice and cosy in a chips ahoy bag lmao i was soo happy to find him i was scared when he vanished =[

I have had a few. but I am in the process of making a new containment system for them all. I am personally sick of having the large aquariums all over the place. I hope that this system will prevent future outbreaks.:please:

Twice. They were both totally my fault. I fell asleep reading with them. The first time, Odysseus(given to nephew) found himself a place on my desk in the CD tower. Ophi found a nice blanket to curl up in.

I also fell asleep while studying with Ophi once. I woke up with her face in my face. She flicked her tongue at my nose. It was so priceless. She had this, "Momma, wake up; you're gonna be late for school" look. ^_^

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Originally Posted by Melicious

Twice. They were both totally my fault. I fell asleep reading with them. The first time, Odysseus(given to nephew) found himself a place on my desk in the CD tower. Ophi found a nice blanket to curl up in.

I also fell asleep while studying with Ophi once. I woke up with her face in my face. She flicked her tongue at my nose. It was so priceless. She had this, "Momma, wake up; you're gonna be late for school" look. ^_^

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Too cute, lol. I haven't had any snakes escape but i did have my pacman soaking for his chytrid treatment yesterday and he managed to jump out of the bowl and into the sink.

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Originally Posted by Isis

Once and it was a dumb mistake. We had an old gas stove, no pilot light, I let him slip away from me and when I grabbed him he was hooked to something and I didn't want to pull to hard. I knew he was in the stove, I took it apart, but still couldn't get to him. I waited for half and hour then there he was hanging off the top of the stove :rolleyes:

Other than that no escapes, they are in tubs in a home made rack so there's no way they can open a lid.

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Sounds like something that happened to me! I was cleaning my BPs cage--I was on the kitchen floor because they somehow managed to plaster their old shed all over the walls, and i was trying to scrape it off.

My mom was watching the snakes for me, and she was holding one, and just watching the other... She looked away for a few minutes and when i glanced to make sure they were doing okay, All I saw was Flicker's (one of my snakes) tail disappearing though a hole in the bottom of one of the cabinets into the sink plumbing..

It literally grabbed a crowbar and pulled apart the sink cabinet to get him out. And when I finally found him, he was turned around just about ready to come out. xD Dad was sooo pissed and I had to help fix it.

I still say It's my mom's fault >_>