escapee

[awesome17]

Hi everybody, I thought I would I tell you guys about something that happened earlier today. So, I have to thaw rats for my ball python in a five gallon bucket in my room, and as I was taking the rat out of the bucket to see how warm it was a head and body started peaking out from behind some things on a shelf near my floor, which was my Gray rat snake that had apparently escaped and I didn't know yet, but i didn't do anything and I just watched as he slowly got closer to the giant rat, that in no world could he eat since he's only about 3 quarters of an inch in diameter, but he struck and tried to eat it, but I just pried him off and put him back in his cage.Well, I thought that was funny and i should share it with you guys has anything like this ever happened to any of you?

Cameron

 

[pa3k_87]

Hasn't happened to me but I can definitely use your idea if ever one of my snakes escape.

 

[VictorHernandez]

haha well, try to secure the enclosure now. you dont want him to be escaping while your not there, or you dont notice.

 

[awesome17]

Yeah, he has 4 books on his cage now.

 

[poisoned]

Yeah, he has 4 books on his cage now.

You should probably get something with lockable/sliding door.

 

[The Snark]

Yeah, he has 4 books on his cage now.

I keep getting this mental image of a hefty python like snake nosing the lid which is held down by 4 paperbacks.

 

[VictorHernandez]

Today I was transferring my Scolopocryptops spinicaudus from a small container to a different container, and he was buried within the container. I thought, "Why don't I just pour all the soil into the other container?". As I did that, a tiny amount of substrate fell out on the floor. I hoped the Centipede wasn't in there, but I looked down, and there he was walking around. I captured him and then placed him in his new home though.

 

[The Snark]

Today I was transferring my Scolopocryptops spinicaudus from a small container to a different container, and he was buried within the container. I thought, "Why don't I just pour all the soil into the other container?". As I did that, a tiny amount of substrate fell out on the floor. I hoped the Centipede wasn't in there, but I looked down, and there he was walking around.* I captured him and then placed him in his new home though.

*In accordance with Murphy's Law.

 

[Obelisk]

Yeah, he has 4 books on his cage now.

I had a 16" California kingsnake in an enclosure with the top being held down by a couple of heavy bricks. Needless to say, It wasn't enough, and he did escape.

 

[Entomancer]

Hahahaha, hilarious.

My 17 year-old corn snake (my first reptile) once escaped for a whole year, and then one day emerged from the depths of my parent's coat-closet.

We were having mice problems for a while before that, and needless to say, they mysteriously stopped while the snake was "at large". I got him back in his tank and that never happened again, thanks to some heavy rocks.

 

[naychur]

My Jungle Carpet Python should have been named Houdini when he was younger. He escaped 3 times, being gone 3 weeks at the longest. I have 3 "working" cats that tormented him until he made himself visible again. Now I have an escaped Kunisir Island Ratsnake and a Kenyan Sand Boa on the prowl. I have hopes of finding the ratsnake, but not the sand boa (floor vents and sand boas don't mix).

I started making cage straps for my snake enclosures. No escapees from the enclosures with straps.......but have not had a chance to get everyone strapped. In the meantime, I am using heavy board and speakers!

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[Entomancer]

That sucks...

Maybe you could find some bricks somewhere that somebody doesn't want?

 

[naychur]

Not a big deal. We are not using the speakers for anything else.

Since I posted last, we have located and recovered the rogue Kenyan Sand Boa! He had been missing since May! Now we are down to just 1 on "Walkabout". We figure that one has been held up in a storage area full of boxes. If we can clean it out, I suspect we will find him.

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[awesome17]

I used your idea about the straps and I used heavy duty velcro to velcro the lid to the cage which is working great, thanks for the idea.

Cameron

 

[pouchedrat]

my baby savannah monitor is in a 40 gallon breeder half filled with dirt/sand mixture, and the lid has clips on the ends. Well I came in the room to feed it one day and didn't see it. I figured it was burrowed or something, but the fact that the roaches were still in the bowl when I returned an hour later, made me nervous. Sure enough, digging through the tank I did NOT find it at all! I panicked, and tore the house apart. I found it later, upstairs, in the bedroom, underneath the dresser. HOW the heck it survived a house with FOUR cats who all want to eat it, is beyond me. Despite clips on the tank's lid, it still pried it open somehow. I guess the clips weren't secure enough, but the fact that it's a BABY scares me to what it is capable of doing as an adult, LOL!! omg, padlocks all over or something when I build the new cage.........

 

[Tarac]

We had a short period during my green burm's adolescence with wandering. He was about 8-10 feet over this period of time (he's not that big now actually, maxed around 12-13 a while ago and quite old at this point so not getting bigger in any measurable way). I was moving around frequently while starting college and inevitably wasn't able to set up a giant custom enclosure for the in-between weeks while moving. It felt like every time I was laying over at my parent's between moves, bless their hearts, he would find that his temp housing was not really that secure and escape randomly.

My mom hates snakes, although she learned to be much more tolerant during that period. He's a big lazy bum, stopped striking at food very early (always offered fresh killed or thawed, for exactly that reason- currently he just leans up a little and opens his mouth and waits for you to stuff the head of the feeder in as he thinks any extra exerted energy is wasteful... no striking, no coiling to aid in positioning the prey item for ingestion... soooo ferocious lol) so he's not very scary even for a snake-hater besides his relatively large size. Very slow and well-conditioned (yes, of course I know it's a wild animal that can't be trusted regardless- both of us are much older now ). Anyway, she heard a big loud crash coming from what was then my room and peaked in to see what was happening. Draping over the big book shelf almost at roof height was my "little" baby, his face right about where her face was as she came in the door. She just closed the door and walked away. How she resisted killing him or me I cannot say.

Another time I apparently left my room's door open too and he of course took the opportunity to lean against the plexi wall of his *next* temp enclosure, popped all the screws right out and broke the plexi and went for a little adventure. This time he was found curled around the shower curtain rod in my bathroom. The next time he was on top of the fridge. Then I stopped moving around and bought a house with dedicated space for him, he's very secure now and has never escaped again. He broke three temp enclosures, each one more sturdy and expensive than the last. Needless to say lessons were learned and I would not recommend giant snakes to anyone who isn't already in a relatively permanent setting due to the ridiculous amount of work it takes to "temporarily" house one in the interim. Could've been disastrous if he was bigger or more hungry/angry or if there was anything small living in the house like a puppy or a child.