So you might've seen about the story of my Red Tail that decided to Houdini out of her tub and go for a stroll while I was away for the night. It appears she's been conspiring with my Ball Python, because my boyfriend woke me up at 7:30am to show me Loki's tail disappearing under our bedside table! How she did it is a tad of a mystery still, but I think I got the most probable theory: her infared bulb blew out a few days ago so we've been using our back-up bulb, which is white and really annoying when you're trying to sleep. To counteract this, I put a folded up sheet around the front and sides of her tank at night to "dim" the light. It kept falling down last night, so I tucked the edges into the screen top. She can't lift the top, but since the sheet was keeping it up a TINY bit, she could finally wedge her head in between the tank and the top and slowly wiggle her way out! This also means one of two things: she crawled across us on the bed (her tank is at the foot of the bed), not waking us, and fell off the side to get to the floor (also not waking us) OR just fell right onto the floor from the start. Imagining either scenario makes me laugh, snakes are so darn pathetically cute when they fall (and don't get hurt!)

A healthy reminder that just because YOU think your snake can't do it, doesn't mean they won't prove you wrong.