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

[KaijuSpy]

To clarify my suggestion of a wire cage, it should be common sense to use a wire mesh that's too small for a snake to have any chance of getting through it or getting stuck in it. I think what is being described above would be a metal bar cage, typically used for larger rodents, rather than a wire cage. Otherwise, it wouldn't hold a mouse in, let alone a ball python out. To keep a mouse inside, the wire needs to have openings 1/4 inch or less.

If I had gone for that method, I personally would have used something like this:


because I would have probably kept/given them away as pets. In the UK it's not legal to feed live to snakes (at least that's what I was told) and I'd feel a bit wrong for buying rodents that were meant to be sold as pets and letting my snake kill them lolol - maybe that's inconsistent of me