Help Snake loose !

[Maines4Me]

thats smart. if flour is too messy, you can use rice or something. you can put a line of it in doorways, so that you notice when the BP moved from one room into the other, and the direction it went.

the problem is, the cat might mess it all up. some cats might occasionally step onto the line of rice/flour, some cats drag their tail behind them, it depends. the cat might also be the one to first discover the BP, which can also be bad. watching the behavior of the cat can also help in determining where the BP may be hiding.

if the situation continues, the BP will need water long before it needs food. there are tricks to determine if the BP visited a water bowl, like balancing a few grains of rice on the rim, but again, that wont work if your cat also checks them out.

Yeah I tried watching her first thing this morning she sniffed around the tank and even jumped in the tank then after awhile sniffed at the fridge witch led to me taking the back off to look around the one spot under there I can not see has me hopeful. I put flour all around the fridge and at entries. my cat will be spending the day out in the fenced yard... on an up note my neighbor is bringing her hound over to sniff around under our close eyes. my fingers are crossed

[Maines4Me]

I received a lot of good advice here:

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...3-Missing-Ball


Our cat knocked the tub slightly in the rack just small enough and ours got out. we found her after about two weeks. Besides being a little cold she was fine.

Don't lose hope and good luck and I hope you find him!

two weeks!!! but thank god that leaves me hopeful that he's ok still :-)

[ROACH]

ok will do thank you. I'm also thinking if I don't find him by this afternoon going to get a live feeder mouse and put it in his tank setup on the floor? maybe attract him back home at night with warmth and warm food. lol and all nighter for me tonight of quietly staring at a mouse running around a snake tank.

Dont forget about your cat. The cat may get the mouse before your snake does. I wish you luck finding him!

[Maines4Me]

No luck yet. the hound was little to no help. so right now just waiting for my husband to get home and I'll try the live feeder and turning off all heat sources other than the tank with the mouse, including turning off my fridge.

[DooLittle]

Look up high as well, and also very tight spaces you wouldn't think she'd fit. Good luck.

[Marrissa]

Yes look high. I had one get out weeks ago and apparently she had climbed up around the wall heater (which is not even hooked up so it's pretty cold and drafty in there) and got into the wall. Found her by hearing her fall on top of the heater from up in the wall. We had to strip the heater apart piece by piece to be able to stick my hand up above it into the wall to grab her.

We had systematically took everything apart room by room and looked in everywhere and everything. I tried the heat matt tricks the live bait. None of that worked. Try that anyways though. Also try putting garbage or grocery backs along the walls and listening at night. I slept on the floor every night till we found her and listened until I fell asleep. Good luck! I think mine was gone for four days.

[sakura_noir]

I've been in your shoes. From what I've noticed, my snakes have never been too far away from where they went missing; however, they can hide like nobody's business. You'll look a hundred times in the same spots and won't detect your snake. They are nocturnal creatures, so your best chance of recovery will be when it's dark and quiet. In both circumstances, it took a week and a half for my babies to show up.

As hard as it may be to do so, try not to panic. I thought my poor Loki who got lost in the car was done for because of the extremes in heat and cold. He disappeared four days before I had to fly and I hadn't been able to retrieve him from the car by the time of my travel. I spotted him in the trunk before the little butt went back to a spot I couldn't reach. I left a dish of water for him and thankfully a couple of days after my return, he came out for water. Good thing too because I didn't have much hair to rip out. He didn't suffer any ill effects and I'm so grateful.

[Maines4Me]

I've been in your shoes. From what I've noticed, my snakes have never been too far away from where they went missing; however, they can hide like nobody's business. You'll look a hundred times in the same spots and won't detect your snake. They are nocturnal creatures, so your best chance of recovery will be when it's dark and quiet. In both circumstances, it took a week and a half for my babies to show up.

As hard as it may be to do so, try not to panic. I thought my poor Loki who got lost in the car was done for because of the extremes in heat and cold. He disappeared four days before I had to fly and I hadn't been able to retrieve him from the car by the time of my travel. I spotted him in the trunk before the little butt went back to a spot I couldn't reach. I left a dish of water for him and thankfully a couple of days after my return, he came out for water. Good thing too because I didn't have much hair to rip out. He didn't suffer any ill effects and I'm so grateful.

Thank you. yeah I'm getting nerves the more hours go by. and I can't think of any more stuff to tear up or apart. but I'm still hopeful for tonight. A buddies going to hang out on the floor with me all night tonight. So I'm hoping 4 eyes will be better than 2 while he's his most active night time self.

[Morris Reese]

Thank you. yeah I'm getting nerves the more hours go by. and I can't think of any more stuff to tear up or apart. but I'm still hopeful for tonight. A buddies going to hang out on the floor with me all night tonight. So I'm hoping 4 eyes will be better than 2 while he's his most active night time self.

Sounds like a long night! Make coffee for yourself and keep a warm rat close by!
GOOD LUCK AND KEEP US POSTED!!!

[lilnash0]

Don't lose hope. I had one get out of his tank and I found him 3 days later and he was trying to get back in the tank. I woke up in the middle of the night and he was wrapped around the leg of the desk his cage was on .

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