How to get him out of the hide.

[LLLReptile]

He probably LOVES that hide and the fact that you can't get him out.

Give it time, and patience, and eventually he'll come out. If you don't have patience, run it under some warm water.

Patience is usually the best bet, though. One of my favorite ball python stories is one from a customer that had her ball python escape... She found it a couple days later, but she found it inside of a ski boot, wedged in so tight that she couldn't get it out. She figured if she put the boot in the cage, the snake would come out and go back into its usual hides.

Nope.

For several months, the snake just lived in the boot, even dragging meals into it to eat them, rather than come out fully. If it couldn't eat in the boot, it wouldn't eat at all. After a while, it must have out grown the ski boot, and eventually did come out, but I just remember for several months this girl coming in to feed her snake in a ski boot. For a long time, any time we'd ask her about the snake, she'd say "Well, it's fine, it comes out to poop and shed but never when anyone's home or awake..."

Your snake will probably not be quite so stubborn, but I assure you, it is probably as happy as a ball python can be crammed into that hide.

-Jen