Help with escapee

[zonbonzovi]

So...last week I was returning home from doing a presentation for a boy scout ceremony. After bringing all the participants inside from the car and putting away the inverts, I noticed that the Sterilite road trip container housing my leucistic rat snake is empty. Mentally retracing my steps when leaving the boy scout event, I determined that Cracker was either in the car or house and proceeded to systematically move everything in the house from one end to the other. I also searched the car thoroughly....anywhere that could be adjusted or scanned with a flashlight. No dice. Today, on the way home from work, I depressed the clutch and met with resistance. Reaching down to move a presumed soda bottle, I instead grabbed the tail end of Cracker, who quickly retreated into the recesses of the dash board. I will be setting placing a heated box inside the car & conisidered the f/t rat in the 2 liter option so here's my query: what is the best way to go about setting up the 2 liter/rat & y'all have any other suggestions on how to bring Cracker back into the fold?

There are no visible routes to exit the car as I believe he would have found a way out at this point. Any help would be much appreciated!

 

[Galapoheros]

I had a huge snake get out in my truck a few years ago, I thought it was gone and then showed up on my dashboard right above the steering wheel two or three weeks later, ...just sitting there, I had totally forgotten about it. I was lucky to find it before it found me or somebody else, it was a hot snake. I would park that car in a garage or at least in the shade. I'd try to use a dead rat, put it on the floor or seat and maybe dedicate yourself to sitting outside to watch for 20 or 30 minutes and see if it comes out, picking up the scent, ...got the pede back btw, no probs.

 

[zonbonzovi]

I had a huge snake get out in my truck a few years ago, I thought it was gone and then showed up on my dashboard right above the steering wheel two or three weeks later, ...just sitting there, I had totally forgotten about it. I was lucky to find it before it found me or somebody else, it was a hot snake. I would park that car in a garage or at least in the shade. I'd try to use a dead rat, put it on the floor or seat and maybe dedicate yourself to sitting outside to watch for 20 or 30 minutes and see if it comes out, picking up the scent, ...got the pede back btw, no probs.

Whoa, that is a horse of a different color! Glad you found it without losing your hand/foot/peter

Did the rat thing last night & put in an overturned Sterilite with a heat pad...my wife checked on it when she left pre-dawn & I did the same a few hours later. I'll be dismantling the more obstructing parts of the dash on lunch today & practicing my contortionist skills.

I'm glad Jeff made it back OK...give him a roach and a pat on the sternites for me.

Edit: Cracker has been since located and is busy convalescing with a good book.

 

[dtknow]

I had a Honduran milksnake gamely squeeze into the AC vents on a car dashboard. We never did find him-he must have found a way out of the car.

 

[moose35]

so how many pieces is the car in?



moose

 

[zonbonzovi]

dtknow: i remember that story. it was the first thing that came to mind when he went missing.

moose35: i was just tearing into the passenger side airbag compartment when the hand of God came out of the sky and pointed to the spare tire storage area...I quickly made her an extra dirty martini & apologized for all the blasphemy.

 

[moose35]

moose35: i was just tearing into the passenger side airbag compartment when the hand of God came out of the sky and pointed to the spare tire storage area...I quickly made her an extra dirty martini & apologized for all the blasphemy.

glad it turned out ok.
usually for me when that hand comes out of the sky i get smacked.

moose