Ball Python escape, could he have gotten out of the house?

[Homebody]

I can't tell you what you should do, so I'll tell you what I did. When my bp escaped the first time, I looked in all the nooks and crannies starting at his enclosure. Ultimately, I found him in my daughter's closet at the far end of our apartment. Somehow a big fat adult python managed to traverse the length of my apartment without anyone noticing. All the clamps were still in place on his enclosure, so, as improbable as it seemed, I assumed he dashed to freedom in the moments it took me to fill his water bowl. The very next night after I filled his water bowl I made absolutely certain that he was in the enclosure before I closed and clamped it down. A few hours later my son wakes me. He scared. There's a monster in his room. I laid down with him to help him sleep and I too heard noises. I thought no wonder he's scared. That couldn't be my bp again. Could it? When my son got up to go to the bathroom, I decided to check on my bp. All the clamps were in place but he was gone. Of course, he was in my son's room right beside his bed. How he got out remains a mystery.

My bp passed away, but unfortunately all snakes are escape artists, so, just recently, my Children's python escaped. He crawled under my couch. I waited for him to crawl out again. When I tired of waiting, I went to check on him and he was gone. I searched all the nooks and crannies to no avail. After everyone went to sleep, I crumpled newspaper and laid in across all the thresholds in my apartment in the hopes that I would hear him crawl across them and waited. Fell asleep around midnight but got up hourly to check the newspapers. None were disturbed. The next day I went to work. At 3 pm, my wife called. She found him in the laundry cart. I had checked the laundry cart, but I believe he just blended in too well with the clothes for me to see him.

I share these stories to give you hope. They do tend to turn up. Good luck.