My butter was the first to escape and she got out because there was too much of a gap between her tub and the rack. I spent an entire week looking for her, staying up late, leaving rat pups out and searching every where. Just as I was giving up hope on finding her relatively quickly I happened to hear some noise coming from under my kitchen sink. She had gotten stuck in a stick mouse trap my apartment complex puts down every year. It was pretty horrifying to find her like that. Half her face of was stuck to it and her mouth was stuck open. I got her off with a little cooking oil and put a lid on her tub. She's been doing fine.
My second escape was my cinny. She got the lid off her tub and managed to escape. Since she's in my QT room I only check on them every few days so I had no idea how long she had been missing. I noticed she was missing as I was feeding. I decided to ignore the fact that she was missing and continue feeding everyone first. No sense panicking when she could have been missing for days already. Turns out that was a good move because I found her under the rack. She was directly under the last snake I went to feed.
I plan on building/buying (haven't decided which yet) new racks early next year so hopefully I won't have any more escapes.
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