Crisis averted

[Dianne]

Glad to hear it had a good ending! My adult male went for an adventure one night when I must have not clipped the front latch shut well enough (front opening exo Terra). I found it open in the morning, sans snake, and texted the fiance before I left for work to be aware of the situation when he woke up. He was missing a couple days before we found him - inside the insulation on the stove walls! I wish he was as easy to find as on a bookcase!! Do you know how hard a stove is to dismantle while keeping it in tact for the landlord?

You bet I quadruple check all my locks and latches now. We joke now when he's poking around his enclosure that he's 'pining for the stove' like that one Monty Python sketch with the bird.

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Stoves must be a BP thing. When I upgraded my boas to 4’ Vision cages, I put my ball in the larger of the reptile tanks...the one with the sliding latching lid that had been secure, so I thought. My boa had been in it for 2 years with no problem. Within 24 hours my ball had escaped. We were in that first apartment, and came home from work to an empty tank. I had visions of a loose snake that had slithered into a neighboring apartment showing up on the six o'clock news. We only had 500 square feet and we must have turned that place upside down. We finally found him under the stove, wound around some type of brace or bracket. My other half titled the stove back while I stuck my head and arms under it and unwound the snake. Everyone got locking cages after that.