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Lost my Ball Python
Two nights ago, I forgot to close my ball python's enclosure all the way. I woke up with the tank wide open and no snake to be found. We have searched the house thoroughly and we've not seen him. Close to his enclosure is a vent from about 1910, the holes are big enough for him to get through. The doorways are also short enough for him to push himself under. We checked the vents, and even pulled a CIA operation with two phones and a lot of tape and twine, and we still haven't seen him. The whole upstairs floor has been checked extensively and some of the downstairs. We have two indoor cats and an outdoor cat who I'm afraid may have eaten the snake. As well as the dog being under suspicion. If anyone could help and give some advice on finding my lost snake, that would be great! He means so much to me.
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Re: Lost my Ball Python
The warmest place would probably be right at the entrance of the vent- and I'm afraid he went inside of it and made his way to the furnace. We checked there numerous times, but to no avail. Here's a photo of the little guy, he's a bit bigger now- but still small enough to fit under the doorway and into the vent.
http://imgur.com/a/omq6K
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i honestly don't feel a cat would eat the snake, more so just make a mess then strut around the house proudly until you find their present. you know your cats better than i do, but that's from my understanding of my own cat.
start your search close to the enclosure, look in EVERY nook and cranny — even if you think "there's no way a snake would go/fit in there," look there especially — and only then fan out from there. from my experience they stay close to their enclosure.
if your search brings you father than 10ft from the enclosure, set up a hide and maybe a heat pad and place food in their for them: the scent and heat might draw them out. you can also set up lines of flour to look for tracks.
my 2 year old has escaped twice due to my own error: when he was a few months old i found him ~10ft from his tank under the fridge (looking up at me like "where did my house go??"). second time he was older and was ~5ft from his enclosure: completely stuffed himself into a box full of shoes; it was the last place i looked because i thought "there's no way he'd go in there."
good luck!
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1.0 corn snake
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Re: Lost my Ball Python
Trying my best to follow all the advice given but have still not found the little bugger, I'm going to check under the mattresses again and hopefully someone can reply with information on the vent situation. I hope I find him.
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Re: Lost my Ball Python
When my snake escaped I figured, he probably went along the wall because being in the middle of the room makes them more vulnerable (more sides to get attacked from). So I went along the wall checking everywhere along the way. I finally found him in a closed drawer in my walk in closet. These drawers are pretty heavy but he somehow found his way into my clothes... I somewhere read, look everywhere you think he would be, then everywhere you don't think he would be.
The people that had him before me said, he has gone missing before and turned up two weeks later in a desk drawer.
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Re: Lost my Ball Python
Originally Posted by John Tobin
hopefully someone can reply with information on the vent situation
scenting the room might draw him out if he's in there.
4.4 ball python
1.0 Albino ✮ 0.1 Coral Glow ✮ 0.1 Super Cinnamon paradox ✮ 1.0 Piebald ✮ 0.1 Pastel Enchi Leopard het Piebald ✮ 1.0 Coral Glow het Piebald ✮
1.0 corn snake
1.0 Hypo ✮
1.0 crested gecko
0.1 ???? ✮
0.1 cat
0.1 Maine Coon mix ✮
0.1 human ✌︎
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Re: Lost my Ball Python
The vent is straight for a while when you go in it, but we didn't see him there when we recorded a video of it (with a light). There's also a straight drop down two floors after the narrow space, we sent a camera down there while we used face time to get live footage of it. He wasn't in there either. I don't think, even if he were in there that we could draw him out with a scent. I'm afraid he could've gotten caught on a nail on his way down and we couldn't see it because the camera was facing one way. Also, I looked behind all the big objects, beds, dressers, desks, and in the drawers and I haven't had much luck.
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Re: Lost my Ball Python
Originally Posted by tttaylorrr
i honestly don't feel a cat would eat the snake
Unfortunately they might do that. They left me only the tip of the tail of a baby corn that managed to squeeze trough the space between the tub and top of the rack.
Hard to miss the blood tho if that was the case.
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