Quote Originally Posted by brokeballer View Post
When i first was getting into snakes i had an escapee. I put out a hide and some food for him over night. My room mate called me up a few days later and said he was going to do some laundry. I said OK, but make sure and check around the drier so he didn't get overheated if he happened to be around the drier. When he pulled the drier away from the wall it also pulled the drier vent tube out of the floor and for some reason he didn't fix it. I came home several hours later and saw the drier pulled away from the wall and a large hole going under my house. I quickly taped the hole up. For weeks i kept a hide with heat out and every few days a frozen thawed, but couldn't find him. That is when my neighbor found my snake dead inside the back of her drier. I didn't blame my room mate because it was my fault that the snake escaped in the first place. I almost think if i would of left the hole untaped he would have came back out I was majorly let down but dont give your hopes up. I once found my first snake in the back of an 18 pack of emptly beer bottles that were about to be taken out too. Check everywhere! And try not and fall asleep with your snakes like i used to!

Just make sure there is no escape routes out of your house and what not and things should be OK.
That's just it...this old place is full of 'escape routes'.

I have 4' resident Black Rat Snake who comes and goes as it pleases.

The last appearance was while I in the bathroom and it slithered around me for a while, finally coiling around my ankles and resting on my feet before it eventually went behind the bathtub.

[apparently it 'likes' me because when it appears to hubby, it usually drops down in his face from a porch rafter or something and nearly scares him to death]

A lovely Milk Snake makes an occasional visit.

They can get in and out of here with no effort at all.
[and they help keep the mice down so they're very welcome, here]

I'm sorry about your poor snake.

I didn't do laundry for over a week, fearing he might be in the washer or drier but we pulled them out and saw no sign of him.