Escape and near-tragedy

[Caitlin]

I honestly have a hunch that this happens way more than you realize, but many just don't want to admit it or share the experience, especially when it doesn't end well.

I hope that's not the case, but it may very well be true. I almost put little Ozzy back into the Sterilite tub just to watch him and see how he managed his escape, as I've kept so many snakes in those tubs with no problems at all, so I'm still shocked that he got out. But between the gasket and the clips, the tub lid is so tightly secured that I was afraid he'd hurt himself in a second attempt. It just wasn't worth the risk.

I am pretty well able to weather the ups and downs of online forums, but I admit it has been hard for me to post about what happened to Miso. It was even hard to post about Ozzie's escape - I just imagined people thinking that I'm a bad keeper/shouldn't have snakes, etc. I know that's not entirely rational, but just as I've spent a lot of years keeping, I've been a lot of years online and I know how it can get!

But I'm still glad I posted both of these incidents if hearing about either one prevents even a single escape. And I sincerely hope I manage another decade of keeping that's escape-free!!