Quote Originally Posted by WingedWolfPsion View Post
Have you tried a wire cage, set in the middle of the floor, with a live mouse in it?

Also, ball pythons can go months without food, but not without water. Water is what he will be looking for. Where can he get water? That's where you want to look for him. Leave a pan of water out next to the mouse cage.

Snakes will travel DOWN to look for water--the ground floor, or the basement, wherever they can head downward, because that's logically where water should be.
There are bowls of water everywhere.
However, the walls open to the outside where a puddle forms from the downspout every time it rains.
The black snake drinks there.
For whatever reason, there is no water in the drip pan under the fridge.
At the moment, the root cellar is dry but I have no way of telling what's going on under the part of the house where the kitchen is.

The toilets don't 'sweat' and the lids are down.

I have no idea what, if anything, he's drinking.

I'm starting to despise this house.

I'll set my feeder mouse tank on the floor, just in case he decides to prefer the tame white ones to the red wild ones.