Lost snake, found snake, dismantled oven to get at him. Where was YOUR snake found?

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We see "Lost snake" threads on here relatively frequently. Well, it was my turn. I walked out into the living room at 4:30 AM to get ready for work and found Argus's tank door WIDE open and, of course, no snake inside. He has an Exo Terra with a latch on the front, so it must have been me not latching it properly last time I used it. We live in a 750 square foot apartment so I wasn't too worried - there's only so many places he could be.

I sent my Fiance a text to read when he got up letting him know Argus was AWOL and went to work. He looked all over the place when I was gone, and then had to leave. I looked all over when I got home from work. We set out a heat lamp and hides and water overnight, and locked the cat up (because he wants to murder the snake), and this morning when he didn't show up set up an organized search and ripped apart the apartment leaving absolutely no stone unturned.

Well, I pulled out the drawer on the oven and guess who I saw behind there on the floor? I reached in and he slipped right up in the inner walls of the oven. I'd looked under the oven already, but he must have been in the wall nestled in the insulation. We cooked on the stove this morning which must have driven him to the floor with the heat. We'd already dismantled the living room and were indeed planning on pulling apart the appliances - stove, washer, dryer - so he would have been located eventually even had he not been spied on the floor, but still - it just goes to show you can't cross ANYTHING off the list of possibilities. While I was home I actually was keeping an eye on the cat, assuming he could hear the snake moving better than I could and might lead me to him - and I did catch him once crouched down staring underneath the stove, but Argus must have been in the wall because it was a no go when I looked. I should have taken the cat more seriously!

Fiance grabbed the tools, pulled the oven apart and I reached in and grabbed him out no worse for wear. He'd been out about 30 something hours. Fiance grabbed his water dish to put it in the tank again and poor Argus was so thirsty he stretched across the way and took a drink while I was holding him. I thought it was such a weird place for him to end up and really drove the point home that he can be ANYWHERE - I wouldn't have thought his big old ball python body could ever even get under the stove - and got me thinking.

Those of you who have lost and subsequently found a snake - where did you find it? Just for fun, here are some pictures of the snake recovery!