I admit it...

[BBDeNaro]

I hope I'm not the only one who has made this mistake! Last night I was handling my BP and some how got distracted and left his top to his tank off... When I woke up this morning I noticed the top off and show no snake. What was I thinking??? I finally found him 2 closet doors down the hall curled up between the wall and a box (nice little journey). I am glad I found him tho, but kick myself in the ass for not playing more attention!

Has this happened to any of you? If anyone would like to share their story I would love to hear it...

[KMG]

Its only happened one or twice. Seems like at one point we always had somebody looking for a escapee. Luckily I have never had this issue.

[shadowsnakes]

My first BP Rikki was always feed during the weekly cage spot cleaning. I would put him in a banker's cardboard box and toss in a live mouse, make sure he struck and coiled, then attend the tank. One afternoon I finished cleaning the cage, got caught up in a phone call, and completely forgot about him! I found him three days later in the closert, coiled up in the laundry basket.

These days I don't take my eyes off the snakes until they are back in their hides and lids are clamped shut. They are little escape artists!

[jclaiborne]

I use vision cages and use a display lock on the doors...well I was holding my corn thanksgiving morning and my sis showed up and was knocking on the door so I put the snake back, slid the door shut and clicked the lock in place...after about half an hour my sis wanted to see the snake so we walked in the room. I looked and noticed that I didn't click the lock all the way down and there was a small gap where the glass was open...after about a ten minute search I found him on a shelf coiled up around all my shot glasses...that was the first and last escape.

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[Eramyl]

I was admiring my girlfriends new corn snake and forgot to put the lid back on his tank because the dogs started freaking out at something outside. I went back into the room a few hours later to turn the lights off on my frilled dragon and saw the lid was still off, and sure enough, he wasn't in there. I found him in the closet where I keep my Dubia roaches. My girlfriend is still non-the-wiser.

[alykoz]

When I first got my butter we let her roam around on the bed and she got in the covers. I told my bf to make sure to keep an eye on her and I walked away for like a minute. I come back and I'm like well where is she? and he's all under the blanket still and so I lift the blanket and she's just gone. I'm like are you serious? I just told you to keep an eye on her and wasn't even gone for a minute.. Looked around for a minute and finally found her behind the bed exploring. Now I'll have dreams that I find her escaping down the bathroom sink or something cuz I know of their trickery!


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[Seemingly_Harmless]

It hasn't happened to me yet, but a friend of mine forgot to put the top on to his boa's tank. Later she was found under his bed in a family sized potato chip bag (This was when she was still quite a baby and was only 4 feet in length). After that day he has learned to keep his room clean because it literally took us a whole day to figure out where the boa went, plus she got a boo boo on her from trying to slither across that dirty floor

[Kaerei]

I actually had to made an account in order to comment on this.

I got my first BP when I was 13, and the cage set up we got wasn't like they are now. We had to buy latches to hold the lids down, and if you forgot them...well.

It happened a couple of times, but we caught my girl trying to escape several times, because of the latches not being put on correctly. Finally, she got wise and decided to start waiting until late at night. We woke up one morning and she was just gone. Just. Gone. Our house was huge, and we spent hours looking for her. We lived way out in the country, and eventually just decided that she was gone. Months, and I literally mean, at least three of them, went by. We had given up, I had been heartbroken forever. When finally, one day, my little brother found her slinking along behind my piano.

You guys were lucky that you found yours within hours/days. Took us months. ><

She got out again, when we moved once. She was on a bookshelf, so when she got out, she got up onto my window seal (Again, at night). Scared the ever living life out of me when she fell on me at 3am.

[Sabbath]

I had this problem a few times before. The cage my big male BP is currently in has locks on either side of the swinging door and then hatches just to keep it in place if it's unlocked. I remember the horror when realizing that I forgot to lock one side of the cage and my snake, who weighs 4.5 lbs and is easily 6 inches around, squeezed himself through a 1.5 inch space and got out of his cage. I only realized this when I heard a big thump, which was Oliver plopping onto the ground. Funtimes.

Now I'm in the process of setting up my new APT8 and with only one lock I'm pretty sure that will never happen again.