A rat snake I had at one point in time was great at escaping. She got out all the time. I got her for $5 from some kid that brought a whole lot of them in from Florida and they were wild caught ofcourse..when I got her, she was real thin, full of mites... and docile. After I de-nmited her and got her fattened up, she got nasty and I could not even hold her. When she got loose, you had to becareful re-catching her cause she would bite you for sure. I ended up giving her to the zoo cause I could not do alot with her, and I much preferred a snake I could handle easily. She did well with the zoo, in fact they even bred her...