The most hopeless escape case *ever*

[zeonczk]

i know how you feel.. i once lost my new baby.. i got it one day and found it lost the next and it never came home.. it was my 1st ball python.. i really hope you find him back.. you have my prayers..

[Salamander Rising]

i know how you feel.. i once lost my new baby.. i got it one day and found it lost the next and it never came home.. it was my 1st ball python.. i really hope you find him back.. you have my prayers..

I'm so sorry about your lost baby.



I'm not holding out much hope, myself.

There's just too many places and too many holes in this place.

Hubby has stopped helping me move heavy stuff and I'm just about physically done in.

He's telling me "He'll come home when he good and ready" as though Alice was an un-neutered dog gone off roaming for girls.

I'm thinking I should just go ahead and cry it out.

If does he surprise me by showing up some day, great.
If he never does, I won't still be sitting here a nervous wreck, killing myself by degrees spending every waking moment hunting.

If I maintain this pace, I'm for sure gonna land in the hospital.

Thanks for your prayers.

You can't imagine how much they're appreciated.

[emeraldwinter]

I would absolutely hate myself too if my snake escaped. I only have one and he is my favorite creature in the world. A pastel male like your Alice. But Alice sounds like a true escape artist so try not to beat yourself up too much. Crap things happen sometimes and we just have to deal with it. Don't give up!! I am wishing Alice back safe with all my wishing power!! Like another poster said- will him home! He will come back, he will come back. You are gonna wake up someday soon and find him, I know it. Sending lots of positive vibes your way.

[Dracoluna]

Don't give up hope. Snakes are amazing at surviving and seeing as it's no longer the depths of winter, he has a better shot. My escape artist was loose for 3+ months when a friend had her and showed up one day with a full belly despite having lived loose in an old farmhouse with multiple cats and 2 border collies who ate any small animal they could find. Just keep looking and watching. You never know where he might show up at. My girl was found upstairs under the vacuum cleaner after her little vacation so just keep your eyes open.

[Salamander Rising]

I would absolutely hate myself too if my snake escaped. I only have one and he is my favorite creature in the world. A pastel male like your Alice. But Alice sounds like a true escape artist so try not to beat yourself up too much. Crap things happen sometimes and we just have to deal with it. Don't give up!! I am wishing Alice back safe with all my wishing power!! Like another poster said- will him home! He will come back, he will come back. You are gonna wake up someday soon and find him, I know it. Sending lots of positive vibes your way.

I'm hoping with all my heart and soul.
[and crying a lot]

I've started looking upstairs and found a huge hole in the wall that goes straight down to under the house where I absolutely cannot look.

The Root Cellar Of Horror is on the old log house side but this is under the "new" 120 year old part of the house where the kitchen is.

It's logs laid on a rock foundation with the floor built right over top of it creating a low crawlspace and there's no way to see under there.

There's also an old drystone well about 15 feet deep down there.

I never realized what a labyrinth of sheer peril this place is.

I pray he hasn't gone under the house or in the walls.

Last night I dreamed that I found him and woke up with my eyes stuck shut from tears.

The odd thing about that is that in 50 years, no matter how much I loved a pet, I've *never* dreamed about them after they passed away.

Just...never.

Some kind of emotional safety valve, I reckon.

I don't know what that dream meant.

[Salamander Rising]

Don't give up hope. Snakes are amazing at surviving and seeing as it's no longer the depths of winter, he has a better shot. My escape artist was loose for 3+ months when a friend had her and showed up one day with a full belly despite having lived loose in an old farmhouse with multiple cats and 2 border collies who ate any small animal they could find. Just keep looking and watching. You never know where he might show up at. My girl was found upstairs under the vacuum cleaner after her little vacation so just keep your eyes open.

Two of my dogs [the Ibizan Hound and the Portuguese Podengo Medio] 'hunt' under the house edges where the black rat snake goes in and out with very serious "hunting tails" going.

If they find Alice, it's a bad thing unless he stays still and doesn't provoke their chase/kill drive.

I've stopped frantically ripping apart everything.

Now I just scan the rooms and hope.

I'm one of those of thickheads who thinks they can fix anything if only they try hard enough.

This is not one of those things, I fear.

I must just wait and hope.

I'm glad your little wayfarer came home, finally.

[kitedemon]

I have a good friend whom lost her snake and 6 months later she showed up waiting patiently on feeding day in the middle of the snake room floor like nothing was a miss. We live in NS Canada and that snake was gone a whole winter where she was is anybodies guess.

You might try in a few days warm a rat (or was that mouse what ever normal food is) with a hair dryer and see if anyone comes hunting for diner.

[Salamander Rising]

I have a good friend whom lost her snake and 6 months later she showed up waiting patiently on feeding day in the middle of the snake room floor like nothing was a miss. We live in NS Canada and that snake was gone a whole winter where she was is anybodies guess.

You might try in a few days warm a rat (or was that mouse what ever normal food is) with a hair dryer and see if anyone comes hunting for diner.

OMG...what a miracle that was!

I'm so happy for her!

There's been a fresh thawed warm mouse on the floor every night, along with his hides, his water bowl, his "carpet", a heating pad and one of my freshly worn t-shirts.

I've even sat out there in the dark for hours, myself.

[it's awful to say but I wouldn't go to this much trouble if hubby ran off]

[Foxtuning65]

My Poss het pied male disappeared in the Ohio winter for almost four months on the previous owner. He got out because their kitten pokes holes in his lid and he squeezed out. They woke up and he was gone, they checked their basement and searched their whole house. Nothing. Then one morning he showed up on their steps like nothing happened. And he kept his weight (lost 100 grams) It was incredible. He also was out for two weeks in the West Virginia summer, he popped up in his previous owners shoe. So just keep calm, he'll show up soon. Hoping for the best for your little Alice.

[Salamander Rising]

My Poss het pied male disappeared in the Ohio winter for almost four months on the previous owner. He got out because their kitten pokes holes in his lid and he squeezed out. They woke up and he was gone, they checked their basement and searched their whole house. Nothing. Then one morning he showed up on their steps like nothing happened. And he kept his weight (lost 100 grams) It was incredible. He also was out for two weeks in the West Virginia summer, he popped up in his previous owners shoe. So just keep calm, he'll show up soon. Hoping for the best for your little Alice.

Why do they do this to us?!?



I hope I have a happy ending, too.