Everybody wake up!!!

[Kaorte]

I am SO SO SO glad to hear this.


I just had an escape today... i've been tearing the house apart... I'm a mess, im shaking and crying intermittently.. It sucks. Thankfully I don't have any holes in my house for a snake to go crawling in, but she doesn't seem to be in any of the usual spots.

[angllady2]

Now I caught your other post about telling the ratsnake that Alice had gone missing. Did he come out of the same hole the ratsnake uses ?

Because I'm thinking your friend told him where a great place to catch mice was, knowing Alice had a good chance of ending up back in the bathroom where you would find him. I think you owe that ratsnake a big thank you.

Gale

[Salamander Rising]

Now I caught your other post about telling the ratsnake that Alice had gone missing. Did he come out of the same hole the ratsnake uses ?

Because I'm thinking your friend told him where a great place to catch mice was, knowing Alice had a good chance of ending up back in the bathroom where you would find him. I think you owe that ratsnake a big thank you.

Gale

YES!

In fact, the rat snake kept pointedly going back and forth from there to me and finally wrapped around my feet.

Then he slithered away alongside the tub where the other unknown hole is.

For all I know, that's how Alice was navigating the subfloor area...using those two connected holes.

Now, how do I reward that rat snake?

(hillbillies call them "Pilot snakes" because they are supposed to lead rattlers and coppers to winter dens, where they all snuggle up til spring)

Weird.

That rat snake has a forever home here, for sure...

[Salamander Rising]

I am SO SO SO glad to hear this.


I just had an escape today... i've been tearing the house apart... I'm a mess, im shaking and crying intermittently.. It sucks. Thankfully I don't have any holes in my house for a snake to go crawling in, but she doesn't seem to be in any of the usual spots.

Heaven knows that I share your pain!

Grab ahold of Gale!

She'll keep you sane until your snake comes home.

Everybody here will stay with you.

I've never known such unwavering support in my life.

Best of luck and many prayers until you find your baby!

[Lazarus1437]

I haven't been on in a couple of days, but I was reading Karote's post a little bit ago and realized that you made a comment about keeping Alice in an escape proof tub. So I searched your forum posts quick as I could to see if Alice actually came back, which lead me here. Uber excited for you that Alice finally came home! I was reading your first post about Alice leaving like every day to see if there was a happy ending and I'm so glad that there was.

[BPLuvr]

Wow I totally missed this post. I had been reading all your other threads all along but missed the most important one! So glad you have Alice back now to enjoy your rest.

[Salamander Rising]

I haven't been on in a couple of days, but I was reading Karote's post a little bit ago and realized that you made a comment about keeping Alice in an escape proof tub. So I searched your forum posts quick as I could to see if Alice actually came back, which lead me here. Uber excited for you that Alice finally came home! I was reading your first post about Alice leaving like every day to see if there was a happy ending and I'm so glad that there was.

Thank you...so am I!

[I'm still shaky, though...the stress was terrible!]

Bad Alice.
Bad, bad Alice!

[Salamander Rising]

Wow I totally missed this post. I had been reading all your other threads all along but missed the most important one! So glad you have Alice back now to enjoy your rest.

No rest yet....we're busy building Alice-Catraz!

[he should be in lock down by tonight...then I'll finally rest]

[WingedWolfPsion]

YES!

In fact, the rat snake kept pointedly going back and forth from there to me and finally wrapped around my feet.

Ratsnake was saying "HEY, there's someone in my HOUSE!" lol...

[Salamander Rising]

Ratsnake was saying "HEY, there's someone in my HOUSE!" lol...

More like "There's some big fat clumsy slob who's a lousy hunter in my house!"

You should have seen Alice trying to kill and constrict that puny mouse.

When I first saw him, I thought he had been gravely injured and was in his death throes.

His face was bloody and he was twitching and writhing horribly.

It wasn't until I was literally on top of him that I saw the blood was from the middle-munched mouse and the 'convulsing' was Alice trying desperately to "coil" something so small he couldn't properly get his neck around it.

For all I know, that itty bitty mousling was the first thing he'd been able to successfully snag in 3 weeks of trying.

I know he was starved because he'd come back out of the hole minutes later to find his "kill".
[which I'd already flushed]

"The Great Yellow Hunter", he ain't.