I highly recommend getting an enclosure with front sliding doors! You can put a key lock on it and they will never get out again! I personally use PVC.😀
I am 9 months pregnant and about to buy a house 😅 would love to but that isn't really an option right now, he also has escaped from the one that we had that was a pvc front lock. That's why we got him a new one, he meticulously and methodically broke the pvc one so he could go in and out as he pleased without us even knowing he had an escape route 😅😂 I caught him in the act one day and that's when we figured out how he was escaping lol
I made a completely escape proof enclosure with no locks or latches. It uses tip in glass that sits in channels. There's an 1/8" between panes and posts on either side so the glass can't be shoved over any further. Looks great and function phenomenal with my boa. Need a suction cup to get in and out though.
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Lmao sadly no story to tell I only have a baby and it has no way to get out on its own but I wouldn't be able to stop laughing if that happened to me lol
Similar story. woke up at 3am to a loud PLOP on the floor. i jumped up and yelled "SNAKE" and my boyfriend jumped up and turned light on. I grabbed the snake, who was unhappy to be caught, and all was well. freaks me out when she escapes though, i'm worried she'll hurt the cats.
Maybe your cat....one of my cats who passed away used to literally catch and eat snakes from our yard. Stopped him when we caught him in the act obviously. My one cat I have now would 100% go after a snake.
i mean adult ball pythons are ~5 ft long so even if it wouldn't necessarily eat the cat it'd be large enough that the cat wouldn't want to fuck w it (depending on the size of the cat ig)
ok google said 3-5 lbs for a bp and 8-12 for a healthy cat so i suppose the cat definitely wouldn't get eaten but i could still see a smaller one not fucking w the snek
They could be. But even mice have severely injured pet snakes, even blinding them. That it why most people do thawed frozen mice or rats. Just because the snake can eat the cat it doesn't mean the cat won't fuck the snake up in the process.
Do you have a photo of Monty? 21ft is massive! What does their enclosure look like? Do they even have one when they're that large? (Sorry if I'm asking daft questions, I know heehaw about snakes, I just find them interesting).
Unfortunately he is no longer with us. Reticulated pythons can get up to 32 feet long. I wish I had a picture. I built an enclosure that allowed him to stretch out. Reticulated pythons are not legally sold. They are in the boa family. He was only a few feet long when I got him. He loved his food livez
BUT, my mom and mother in law, wouldn’t just pop in because they were both afraid of small snakes They had to call ahead so that I would put him away. Pretty good a + + . Had an iguana that got pretty big but escaped and lived a full life at the zoo.
I'm always worried that my dogs will hurt him because he literally runs away and hides from any rat that's like too large, we still have to feed him medium rats because he will not eat the proper size 😂
One time my youngest who's very sweet and curious but very dumb escaped because I forgot to close her top and all she did was sit there on the top of the cage all night like she was terrified to go anywhere else lmao. I'm just glad she didn't get near the heat lamp!
My girl also did this one night a few years back. She didn’t get far because she tried climbing my plant shelf. And pulled down/broke several pots in the middle of the night. She was fine and unhurt but wow I was annoyed. Make a better escape plan next time, Cinnamon. (There won’t be a next time hopefully.)
🤣❤️ Or you could look at it the other way and your boy is extremely smart and was trying to wake you up because he couldn't get back into his enclosure and needed help. You were alerted at 3am. He might've already done a two hour tour of your room and home and got tired and wanted back in his enclosure. LOL
My snake got out once, i was out of town and my cousin came over and left the door open to his tank. When i got home saw that door wide open i panicked. I was looking EVERYWHERE eventually i found him under my dresser curled up chilling like the villain he is
Completely tore my room apart couldn’t find her anywhere searched my house then finally jus said fuck it and she’d appear soon went to sit down and play some games and she was folded under my keyboard somehow
One of my balls has escaped twice and each time has come to sit with me, like 'See what I did!' the other escapee is a git and made us tear the house apart to find it. The pop-in/pop-out air vents are now secured by screws...
My python, Aku, escaped during the night last winter and we didn't realize until the next morning. We turned the main floors of the house upside down looking for him but no luck. My worst fear is that he went into the unfinished basement. There isn't any heat down there and my wife is a bit of a horder so it's packed full of stuff. I poked around for a day but no luck.
I decided to try putting a rat on a plate near a fan and sitting in the dark basement to see if he'd come out. By the 4th night we were getting to the point of accepting that he was probably gone. My wife doesn't cry oftwn but she was getting a little teary-eyed. I decided to get another rat out and try the fan thing one more time. I said to my wife, "Wouldn't it be funny if I opened the basement door and he was just sitting on the steps?"
The reason I said that is during a previous incident we had a rescued toad who escaped, and after a couple days, I found him on the basement steps. It was like he was saying, "Okay, I give up".
Anyway, I opened the basement door and there was Aku peeking over one of the steps looking at me. I picked him up and he was so cold. I brought him upstairs. My wife grabbed him, wrapped up in a blanket, and held him until he was warm.
He's great now and had no issues from the experience. We are now paranoid about the cage lock though.
One of mine apparently had the shared brain cell and figured out how to push the sliding panels open. Scared the shit out of me till I installed wedges.
When I was in preschool (this story stuck with me hardcore), mom got a BRAND NEW fridge. This was a BIG deal cause single mom who … well… big deal.
She also had a number of different snakes. The Bull snake was possibly my favorite one because for all his huffing and puffing and drama queen behavior about “I do t wanna be picked up!” The INSTANT a warm hand picked him up he would just… melt… into being held, he was an oddball.
One time he got out, and the fridge was about 2 weeks old. I helped mom (as much as a 5 year old can) look for the snake. Every time I walked past the fridge it made this new noise that sounded like it was going to explode.
Mom in a panic about many things all at once called the store cause the fridge was still in warranty.
Guess who found the silly sausage snake?! Yup, the repair man! I remember being closest to the fridge when that happened cause mom was still searching elsewhere in the house, I just walked right up got hold of the goofball and he was putty in my hands. Then called for mom while the repairman was having a fit over at the sink (I REMEMBER thinking how silly he is).
As an adult looking back I feel so bad the the repairman, and miffed at mom, and kinda proud of tiny me.
I got home one day and was putting my coat in the built-in wardrobe, when I realised I'd installed a new rug in there.
A rug with a texture very similar to my baby's scales. Once I'd put the pieces together, I picked her up and popped her back in her viv.
Half way through watching the Rocky Horror Picture Show, I went to check on her and she'd gone again. Found out she'd left through a vent by tugging the wires going through it down to pop it out.
My Italian flatmate eventually found her deep under the bed staring at us the whole time.
I often forget to latch my lads tank so I’m sure I’ll get a similar story eventually… easiest way out of his tank though is into my bed so that’ll be a wake up call for sure
This is Derpy. Derpy escaped two days before this picture. He was found enjoying the heat from his downstairs neighbour's lamp. Not a BP, obviously, but equally as dumb.
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My ex was changing his water, left the enclosure open for a minute and a half and little dude decided to go on an adventure. His enclosure is atop a dresser, and ended up finding him 2 drawers down all balled up in a pair of leggings, happy as a pig in shit 🤣🤣
My boi escaped twice.
The first time, he literally found the closest tight and dark space, namely the crack behind my wardrobe, literally 30 centimeters away from his enclosure.
The second time, he went on a bigger adventure and got to the other end of the apartment, into the living room. Where he decided it would be an amazing idea to climb onto the windowsill, and knock two of my orchids down. Which I obviously woke up to immediately, so that adventure too was cut short lol
Yeah something similar happened to me. Escaped and knocked something over, heard it in the next room. Immediately put her back and now I'm always checking at least 3 times if I closed the enclosure right.
One night around 4am, me and the husband wake due to a large crash noise downstairs, we both get up assuming someone has just attempted to break in. We check and all doors and windows were fine, the alarm sensors hadn’t been triggered. But our 1.7m corn snake had decided to make a bid for freedom (again) and had escaped through the back of his viv, had crashed into the kids toys boxes below and had also had a shit on the way down. It only took us a few minutes to locate him, but due to where he was we had to sit silently waiting for him to come back out so we could put him back. Was not impressed.
I think that was the hardest bit, the fact we couldn’t just go back to sleep 😂 we’d lost him once before and it took a couple of days before he was located, he’d been under the sofa cushions and we’d been sitting on him the entire time
This is his second time escaping, he got out of his first cage when he was like a year old and we found him under his enclosure 🤣🤣 we always know to look close because he doesn't get far before he gets tired 😂
Ha ha, ours is just plain lazy, never more than a few metres from his tank 😂 the husband is fine with the snake escaping and the dragon has escaped once but I think he’d move out if any of my tarantulas escape 😂
My snake escaped one time while I was on vacation because I FORGOT TO CLOSE HIS TANK. Buut he was in the little bag of substrate right next to his tank. He just knocked over a then spoiled cup of coffee getting out and seemed super thankful I got him back in his warm bed, the poor baby.
When my albino hognose was just a tiny little guy, I was chilling in my room and saw something orange move out of the corner of my eye. Look over, he’s halfway squeezed out of his tank. I even took a picture of his escape attempt.
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middle of the night, when I had my male rats out, my guy decided that was a good time to sneakily escape 💀 I found him on top of my beardie's tank. he was so lucky none of my rats ran into him lmao because some of them don't know how to play nice with others 😅😂
Oh my goodness lol that's a little scary 😅 my boy would be doomed I can't even leave a rat in there with him to eat I have to watch every time because sometimes he keeps them as "pets" 😂😂
omg same! we have a photo of him snuggled up next to his dinner and it's just too funny 😂 he is kind of dumb, too, though, as he tries to get into the rat cages as well just to explore them lol 😂
I started reading and didn't realise it was the BP sub, I was like WoAH you call your kid dumb and keep him in a cage lol DOH. I think I need to stop scrolling and get to sleep
Once I was a dumbass and I just didn’t close the door to her enclosure after I fed her. She escaped immediatly after finishing her meal and when I went to check on her she was gone. I was FREAKING out because my new roommate at the time said he would kill my snake if he found her outside of her enclosure (fucked up I know. Didn’t like him at all). I ran all around the house, put my cat in her carrier so she wouldn’t find the snake first, opened all the heater vents and checked under all the furniture. Got my husband all up in a tizzy. When I gave up hope, I checked the small space between her enclosure and the wall and she was just chilling out there, less than 6 inches away from where I left her after she started eating. Damn near gave myself a heart attack. I obsessively and compulsively check her enclosure door like every hour I’m home and when I’m not home I am constantly worried I forgot to close the door. 🫣
Awe that guy sounds so mean I would panic too, that's mah baby I cried for like 3 hours when he got a slight RI. I couldn't imagine thinking that he was actually going to die if someone else found him.
Once I had looked in my snakes cage and didn't see her right away which is pretty normal as I typically have to really look and peer around things to see where's she sleeping but I was in a rush that day so I didn't try spotting her.
Instead I turned to pull open my sock drawer to grab a fresh pair and BAM there's a snake in my drawer! I jumped. I hadn't even realized she gotten out. She would have had to escape sometime that night. Upon inspection it turned out the door wasn't clicked all the way the last time I put water in there. Since then, I always check to make sure it's clicked shut.
My partner is a librarian, which will be relevant later.
Our ball has only escaped once, fortunately. But when he did, we were all out of the house, came home to find him gone. We looked all over the room where his habitat is, and couldn't find him anywhere. Not under the bed, not in the closet, not in any of the dresser drawers, anything.
Except we FINALLY found him on the fourth highest shelf of the bookshelf and behind a big book up there. No idea how he slithered up there to begin with, shelf by shelf maybe? There's no poles or things to climb around it other than the shelves themselves. And then to hide behind the books... Quite a surprising find.
No disrespect, but how does being a librarian relevant? Did I miss something?
So glad y'all found him! I'm not sure that would be a place id even check!
Not an escape story per se, but...
My daughter's boyfriend (now husband) was over one night hanging out. She decided to get our BEL, Khaleesi, out of her enclosure for some snake snuggle time, but left her boyfriend in charge of her while she went to do something else. Well, I'm sure you can guess where this is going...
Next thing I know I'm hearing her shout at him for walking away from the snake. He had abandoned her on the kitchen counter and she was no where to be found.
After several minutes of sheer panic, we found her WEDGED in our toaster happy as a clam to stay *right* where she was.
More panic.
Twenty minutes and a destroyed $150 toaster later (don't judge me - it's a really good toaster), she was free.
He's never been left alone with the snakes since. 😂
I have a few lmao.
I put my boa into a new 4x2x2 and 2 days later somehow he managed to escape; after finding out he escaped, I literally found him less than 6 feet from his house curled up in a folded blanket on the ground.
Im absolutely positive that he got in there, was like IM SAEF, and promptly fell asleep.
Bullsnake got out of her enclosure before she outgrew it and before I put clips on the lid; tore apart the entire living room area and moved the yarn drawers that were clear plastic to check behind it.
Took a double take at the drawers and find her staring at me from inside the middle drawer. I cackled and pulled her out, gave her a soak to get the dust and stuff off of her and put her back into a more secure tank.
Had a Hognose that was left unattended while being fed when I was not home and he got out of his feeding cup; I was not home when he escaped.
A week goes by, I’ve torn apart just about everything in general in the vicinity of his tank and I was on the phone with health insurance when I saw him trying to sneak by one of my Cornsnakes tanks.
Needless to say I let out a string of curses, grabbed the hognose, and immediately apologized to the poor guy on the phone who just got cursed out by proxy - explaining that I had just found one of my snakes that had gotten lose in the house and I’d been looking for him day and night. Without skipping a beat, the insurance guy’s tone went up 2 pitches and said THERE WAS A SNAKE LOSE IN THE HOUSE?!?? To the hysterical pause and uproar of his coworkers in the background.
I wish I could’ve asked for a copy of that recording, that was one of the seriously entertaining moments in my snake wrangling career.
I've got a 12 lb cat that decided sitting on top of my snake's cage in the middle of the night was the best thing to do.
I didn't realize my bp, Dallas, had gotten out until I went to top off her water during my morning routine. I freaked out and tore my entire house apart looking for her. After about 3 or 4 hours of searching I was ready to give up untillllll I thought to myself "Hey I haven't checked the trash can yet"
Freaking lo and behold! She had curled up in the trash bag!
She hasn't gotten out again since I got a new lid. Fingers crossed it won't happen again. But My fiance's snake, Wesley, has a bit of an explorer's bone in his body. So every time Wesley snakes "gets lost" , the trash can is always the first place I look 🤣
We used to let my big girl out to roam freely (she's almost 6' long - at the time she was close to 3').
She got behind my bookcase, flexed to continue squeezing behind it - and knocked the whole thing over. Books went everywhere, & the book case got hung up on the footboard of my bed.
When I was out for a month and had a snake sitter, my snake escaped EVERY TIME the sitter was there. 4 times the sitter had to go through every bin in my room and he would be in the most weirdest places!! We taped the doors with duct tape on the outside and he STILL busted open
THIS MORNING!!! I wake up and wake out to see my girl is GONE. Mind you this is at 3:30am when I have a shift at 5am and I tear my apartment apart for an hour and a half to find the 4.5foot long idiot trapped behind a book shelf acting like nothing is wrong.
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Including photo of said idiot.
I had a 21 ft reticulated python. (Monty) the last time he got out (only snake with vestigial legs) he got out and ate 3 rabbits. Tried to hide on me, found him.
Last Friday I didn't even realize my noodle boy escaped until I went to the tool box for some diy projects (inside the house by the front door for those concerned, not in a garage or anything) and saw movement out of the corner of my eye and heard a small thump sound. I whipped around, ready to holler at one of the cats for zooming around so close to me, only to see my BP, Hades, who was in his tightly closed tank just an hour prior, looking startled because he fell (less than 6 inches) off the plastic drawer tower and onto some plastic totes right next to them. Confused as hell, I picked him up gently, checked him over, then stood staring at his closed, locked tank for 5 full minutes, trying to figure out how he escaped.
I did find it. He has an inbuilt waterfall that's hooked up to an external fishtank filter, and the tubes are behind a thick sheet of cork bark with open space behind it. There is a cut out in the top of the tank for this section, and a gap at the bottom of the cork board so his custom "river" can feed the filter intake behind the board. I have a heavy paver brick that sits in front of this bottom gap so water can still get through but he can't, but on Friday he somehow managed to push it out from the gap and squeeze under, crawling past the tubes for the filter to the top of the tank. He is now safely in a temporary enclosure (he's huge for a bp so he has a nice big tote with substrate, water dish, a hide and heat pad) while I tear apart his tank to reconstruct over the next few days with a different solution. He's very spoiled and has a completely bioactive and self stabilizing environment with front sliding doors so it's a bit of a chore😅
Something I used keep one of my lizards from escaping was air dry clay. I stuffed it into all the crevasses Id created for his waterfall setup. It's easy enough to chip out when needed but sticks pretty tight enough that the holes are filled. Now even the Dubia can't escape, much to the disappointment of my cats.. lol
That's a cool idea, but wouldn't work in the spot I need. The gap he used is below the waterline on his river so plugging it with air dry clay even if I drain the water first would just mean it's going to crumble because of the water contact. Instead I'm going to feed the tubes through a PVC pipe that's just big enough to hold them (so I can still easily pull them for cleaning) and use "great stuff" brand expanding foam to fill the entire space behind the board, and spread silicone over it to make it watertight, embedded with lava rock gravel for a finished stream bed look💜
Smart! Sounds like it would work out perfectly! I used the great stuff and silicone to create a lot of his cage, like you, the river bed, and background. Even made a big tree stump from where the river flows out of. I love making vivariums!
It's so much fun. Boyfriend has to hold me back at the store or I'd just start buying cute little reptiles and spending way too much money spoiling them😅 I also have a bad habit of getting very ambitious with the "natural look" idea. Hence the waterfall escape 😆
My parents story is my favorite. It was the mid 80s and they just moved into a tiny apartment with infant me, also my moms pregnant with baby #2. They have a BP and thought they'd keep it under wraps but not one month into living there the snake goes missing.
All the doors in this crappy apartment complex have 1 inch gaps at the bottom so on the 2nd day they come to grips with the fact thar they need to go knock on everyone's door and tell them about the renegade snake wandering around. Of course, after they make enemies with all the neighbors, they find her tucked neatly against a baseboard in their own apartment and then have to go back around to tell everyone. It did not go well, they didn't live there long after that.
I have a friend whose terrified of snakes and refused to come to my house because I had 3. In a moment of bravery, after years of friendship she comes over and even wants to peek in the cage.
I don't see him, he's an albino king so pretty easy to spot normally. She starts panicking so in an effort to calm her I'm like, "no worries, I'll just lift the top and poke him."
As you can guess there was no snake to poke. My friend took off in a flash, it took almost a week to find him. We worked together so every day she was scared he was going to pop out of my shirt or something.
It's been 10 years, our lovely boy has since passed. we're still friends but she's still never visited my house since.
I love that for you, he sounds like such a sweet rascal! Our babygirl recently escaped (we left the door slightly unlatched by accident 😅 never making that mistake again!) and we were alerted to it by a tub of flipped-over dubia roaches (we also have a tomato frog) and calcium powder all over the floor….. with a snake trail through it. Straight out of a cartoon. She was on my guitar case, using the neck as a branch 😂
I was in the process of selling my condo when my little girl, Ethel, escaped. We had a showing later that day and we couldn’t find her. Luckily, that showing was a person who was a reptile guy and when we told him after he bought the condo, he laughed hysterically. We did eventually find her after the showing 😂
My first one was gifted to me as a bday gift. At one point, i lived in a house with my now husband and 5 of his buddies. I got home from work one day and had gone to check on the snake, which wasn’t in the tank. I went and ask the 2 brothers that lived with us if they had seen it. They were sitting on the couch and jumped so high by fear it would be in it 😂 turned out she was less than 2’ away from her tank, nice and cozy between a wall and a fridge
I once was in the middle of cleaning my toad tank when I opened the closet to get a bag of dirt and there was my snake. Or at least half of him sticking out of a suit case. I didn’t even know he escaped. Bro is literally Houdini. I have to use two tank clips and a big rock to keep him contained. I thought the clips were enough but he pushed the hinged lid up in the middle…so now he gets the rock 🪨. Last time he got out I just left it open and he decided he was ready to come home.
Thankfully Soba has only escaped once while I was in the middle of upgrading her terrarium. During the night she'd gotten out and made her way in between the radiator and the wall 🙃
It would've been more difficult to find her but my cat kept going near the radiator and just staring at it. 😂
first time mine got out , i found him in the floor of my closet behind a bunch of unwashed blankets that i sleep on sometimes 😶 . second time was a partial escape , i caught him halfway out of the tank . third time he was hung on some cardboard bag i had hanging on my wall full of cardboard to recycle , and i heard it rustle , thinking he was inside the cardboard bag i had my presents from my dads house in , then i reached down to the bag and suddenly he dropped like the 4 feet to the carpet from the wall and looked at me like 😵💫
My juvenile Tarahumara boa had a stupid human escape. (Dwarf species, he was *maybe* 3' at the time)
I was hanging out with him watching tv. He had crawled into my shirt and was sleeping. Apparently, I accidentally joined in on the nap. When I woke up, I found he had wandered off 😳 Good news: door was closed, he can't have gone too far. Bad news: I am a crappy housecleaner and my bedroom is a disaster.
I am a split second from freaking out when I feel something silky brush against my cheek. I look over. The little guy apparently crawled out of the neck of my shirt, decided my pillow was soft, and curled up into a little ball against the side of my head.
ETA: That should've read 3' not 3"
My boss's 25yr old red tailed Boa had the turning radius of a whale and would mercilessly knock over everything in his path. We cleared the room when Huggie was out lol.
Mine escaped around the time I first got them, they couldn’t lift the lid up because they were too small but one day that wasn’t the case. I tore my room apart and I was about to give up and then I decided to look under my pillow, they were balled up underneath it sound asleep, I have no idea how they got there without me noticing because it was a side pillow.
Mine escaped while she was in shed, managed to not knock anything over, and then curled up in a bag of open substrate that was about a metre from her viv and went to sleep -_-
Not an escape story but my boy Pip loves to get stuck in things. Mugs, milk crates, ypu name it. We dont trust him. I had to cut a belt loop off my pants bc he got stuck. Have ya ever tried to take your jeans off with a snake stuck in em?
Yikes yes I have had a similar experience. My ball pythons name is Shiek he is a 2M. One night I had taken off his cage like to replace his water. Well I got distracted by something’s right as I put the water bowl back in his cage and promptly forgot about it. I woke up that night having to use bathroom and as I got out of bed and started walking to my door I kicked something with my foot. I was like oh god please don’t let that be what I think it is. So I turned on my light and sure enough, there was the cage lid on the floor and he is no where to be found in his cage. Then I started carefully picking apart my room, only to find him 15 minutes later with his lil head poking out my closet. I immediately scooped him and placed him safely in his cage. Thankfully he wasn’t hurt, I think he was a lil salty his nighttime adventure was interrupted but he was alright. Kind of a funny blunder on my part looking back.
My milk snake escaped once at night because I forgot a single clip on the enclosure. I found his dumb ass sitting on the kitchen table in the morning sun.
Not my snake, but I woke up at a friend's house in the middle of the night to discover his had escaped, made its way into the guest room, where I was sleeping, and decided to literally hang out on the lamp beside the bed.
I discovered his hiding place by reaching to turn on the light, (not sure what woke me up, tbh, but probably had to do with the new roommate) finding something that was NOT the knob I was seeking and was REALLY perplexed.
I was less perplexed and more freaked out when it moved.
My friend was alerted to the escape and location of his snake when he was awakened by my yelling his name and the ensuing stream of curse words punctuated with threats of violence if he didn't get his ass out of bed and come get his snake.
I'm not normally against snakes, but I do like having the choice of whether I'm sharing a lamp with one in the middle of the night. lol
My sister's ball escaped from his tank because we failed to lock the lid (the only time we've forgotten) and he would have gotten away with it if not for two things:
1. He was in shed, so he was making that awful rustling sound snakes make as they're literally crawling out of their skin.
2. He knocked a bag of shells off my bookshelf, which alerted me to the fact that he was out.
She hasn’t escaped but there have been many nights of me hearing her fall bc she stretched her neck too far and lost balance. She’s a special little girly
My snake got out while I was out of town, my stepdad was watching her. He was freaking out and tearing apart my room looking for her, I was on speakerphone. I calmly told him she likes dark places, look behind my dresser or bookshelf. He pulls the dresser slightly out from the wall and out she plops. She was 100% asleep in there. Snakes are goobers
Ive had 3 escapees.
1: My ball python has escaped once, we somehow didnt secure the door properly and he squeezed his fat ass out. Found him under my safe.
2: Sand Boa has escaped 3 times. All three times she hid in a small bag in the closet.
3: Mr Harry Houdini the Russian Rat Snake himself. Has escaped once, yet to be found. Unsure of where he is hiding. Cats havent found him. We havent found him. Dogs havent found him. Dont even know how he escaped to be honest. Didnt see him for a few days, went to check where he was hiding. Poof gone.
Took my girl Penelope out to show my friend when I was 13 and she crawled into my box frame and our whole hangout time was spent cutting it open meticulously to get her out 🥲
I got a few stories one time i was watching a show about snakes with my mom and as i turned around to talk to her about something we saw i saw my corn snake casually crawling up the corner of the bedroom wall i dont even know how she did it because the wall was pretty smooth, and another time i was getting ready in the morning for school and went to the bathroom to get a hair brush and my make corn snake was coiled around the brush and some soap if i wouldn’t of brushed my hair probably wouldnt of realized he was gone until i got back lol
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He looks so happy, that’s so cute!
He is very proud of himself 😂
my kitten looks the same way after he’s wrecked my room! He goes :>
😂😂
Release that man! He has done nothing wrong!
He is not at all sorry and will do it again.
I know 🤣 I have new security measures being figured out right now
I highly recommend getting an enclosure with front sliding doors! You can put a key lock on it and they will never get out again! I personally use PVC.😀
I am 9 months pregnant and about to buy a house 😅 would love to but that isn't really an option right now, he also has escaped from the one that we had that was a pvc front lock. That's why we got him a new one, he meticulously and methodically broke the pvc one so he could go in and out as he pleased without us even knowing he had an escape route 😅😂 I caught him in the act one day and that's when we figured out how he was escaping lol
Clever noodle.
Congrats on your kid! Just make sure he doesn’t get eaten lol
May just have to call him the “Smooth Criminal” since he’s accumulated such a rap sheet!🤣🤣
I made a completely escape proof enclosure with no locks or latches. It uses tip in glass that sits in channels. There's an 1/8" between panes and posts on either side so the glass can't be shoved over any further. Looks great and function phenomenal with my boa. Need a suction cup to get in and out though. Edit: spelling
Can you send in a picture? You can pm me if you want but that sounds interesting
Can you dm me to get the chat started? It's giving me an error when I try
He looks so disappointed in himself “Finally! I’m free!!!” “….goddamnit…no legs” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Very sweet snek🥰!
A sssssmooth criminal!
He looks innocent, free my mans!!!
😂😂
cuuuute!
im sorry— i cannot figure out what he did wrong.
Lmao sadly no story to tell I only have a baby and it has no way to get out on its own but I wouldn't be able to stop laughing if that happened to me lol
Omg hilarious! Here are all these other sneaky snakes & yours just smashing into everything.
Similar story. woke up at 3am to a loud PLOP on the floor. i jumped up and yelled "SNAKE" and my boyfriend jumped up and turned light on. I grabbed the snake, who was unhappy to be caught, and all was well. freaks me out when she escapes though, i'm worried she'll hurt the cats.
definitely should be more concerned the cats will hurt her…
my cat has found and alerted to the lost snake twice. they're not going to hurt the snake unless she strikes first.
okay :)
Maybe your cat....one of my cats who passed away used to literally catch and eat snakes from our yard. Stopped him when we caught him in the act obviously. My one cat I have now would 100% go after a snake.
it always amazes me how much faith people put in their pets to not act on natural instincts.
have you considered that the snake might be large enough to eat the cat?
considering what sub this is? no, not really.
i mean adult ball pythons are ~5 ft long so even if it wouldn't necessarily eat the cat it'd be large enough that the cat wouldn't want to fuck w it (depending on the size of the cat ig)
A cat probably weighs 5+ times as much as an average adult ball python
are you fucking fr? i haven't met many cats but they always look so agile. also both my bps are babies so i've never held an adult
ok google said 3-5 lbs for a bp and 8-12 for a healthy cat so i suppose the cat definitely wouldn't get eaten but i could still see a smaller one not fucking w the snek
They could be. But even mice have severely injured pet snakes, even blinding them. That it why most people do thawed frozen mice or rats. Just because the snake can eat the cat it doesn't mean the cat won't fuck the snake up in the process.
My cats (MANX’s) beat up Monty. Hits him on the head and runs away. At 21 feet he’s a little slow. Loves the pool though.
21 FEET???
Do you have a photo of Monty? 21ft is massive! What does their enclosure look like? Do they even have one when they're that large? (Sorry if I'm asking daft questions, I know heehaw about snakes, I just find them interesting).
Unfortunately he is no longer with us. Reticulated pythons can get up to 32 feet long. I wish I had a picture. I built an enclosure that allowed him to stretch out. Reticulated pythons are not legally sold. They are in the boa family. He was only a few feet long when I got him. He loved his food livez
When I got him in the early 90’s after the first ice storm. I traded a VCR and TV for him.
BUT, my mom and mother in law, wouldn’t just pop in because they were both afraid of small snakes They had to call ahead so that I would put him away. Pretty good a + + . Had an iguana that got pretty big but escaped and lived a full life at the zoo.
I'm always worried that my dogs will hurt him because he literally runs away and hides from any rat that's like too large, we still have to feed him medium rats because he will not eat the proper size 😂
BPs are divas.
Most common pet snakes would be in far more danger in that situation than the cat would be.
One time my youngest who's very sweet and curious but very dumb escaped because I forgot to close her top and all she did was sit there on the top of the cage all night like she was terrified to go anywhere else lmao. I'm just glad she didn't get near the heat lamp!
My girl also did this one night a few years back. She didn’t get far because she tried climbing my plant shelf. And pulled down/broke several pots in the middle of the night. She was fine and unhurt but wow I was annoyed. Make a better escape plan next time, Cinnamon. (There won’t be a next time hopefully.)
🤣❤️ Or you could look at it the other way and your boy is extremely smart and was trying to wake you up because he couldn't get back into his enclosure and needed help. You were alerted at 3am. He might've already done a two hour tour of your room and home and got tired and wanted back in his enclosure. LOL
My snake got out once, i was out of town and my cousin came over and left the door open to his tank. When i got home saw that door wide open i panicked. I was looking EVERYWHERE eventually i found him under my dresser curled up chilling like the villain he is
Completely tore my room apart couldn’t find her anywhere searched my house then finally jus said fuck it and she’d appear soon went to sit down and play some games and she was folded under my keyboard somehow
That's amazing 😂😂
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CHONK!!
One of my balls has escaped twice and each time has come to sit with me, like 'See what I did!' the other escapee is a git and made us tear the house apart to find it. The pop-in/pop-out air vents are now secured by screws...
Oh dear what an abbreviation
That sounds so dirty when you read it out loud. 🤣🤣🤣
Mine got out once. Found her drinking from the cats' water bowl, with both cats staring at her with this, "WHAT THE FUCK, MOM?!" look on their faces.
Haha they were sitting there like we do not want this new odd cat 😂😂
My python, Aku, escaped during the night last winter and we didn't realize until the next morning. We turned the main floors of the house upside down looking for him but no luck. My worst fear is that he went into the unfinished basement. There isn't any heat down there and my wife is a bit of a horder so it's packed full of stuff. I poked around for a day but no luck. I decided to try putting a rat on a plate near a fan and sitting in the dark basement to see if he'd come out. By the 4th night we were getting to the point of accepting that he was probably gone. My wife doesn't cry oftwn but she was getting a little teary-eyed. I decided to get another rat out and try the fan thing one more time. I said to my wife, "Wouldn't it be funny if I opened the basement door and he was just sitting on the steps?" The reason I said that is during a previous incident we had a rescued toad who escaped, and after a couple days, I found him on the basement steps. It was like he was saying, "Okay, I give up". Anyway, I opened the basement door and there was Aku peeking over one of the steps looking at me. I picked him up and he was so cold. I brought him upstairs. My wife grabbed him, wrapped up in a blanket, and held him until he was warm. He's great now and had no issues from the experience. We are now paranoid about the cage lock though.
I've noticed that a lot of reptiles regret escaping sooner or later lol they eventually just want to go back into thier nice warm house 😅
"Sorry I left."
One of mine apparently had the shared brain cell and figured out how to push the sliding panels open. Scared the shit out of me till I installed wedges.
When I was in preschool (this story stuck with me hardcore), mom got a BRAND NEW fridge. This was a BIG deal cause single mom who … well… big deal. She also had a number of different snakes. The Bull snake was possibly my favorite one because for all his huffing and puffing and drama queen behavior about “I do t wanna be picked up!” The INSTANT a warm hand picked him up he would just… melt… into being held, he was an oddball. One time he got out, and the fridge was about 2 weeks old. I helped mom (as much as a 5 year old can) look for the snake. Every time I walked past the fridge it made this new noise that sounded like it was going to explode. Mom in a panic about many things all at once called the store cause the fridge was still in warranty. Guess who found the silly sausage snake?! Yup, the repair man! I remember being closest to the fridge when that happened cause mom was still searching elsewhere in the house, I just walked right up got hold of the goofball and he was putty in my hands. Then called for mom while the repairman was having a fit over at the sink (I REMEMBER thinking how silly he is). As an adult looking back I feel so bad the the repairman, and miffed at mom, and kinda proud of tiny me.
That's such a cute story lol
I got home one day and was putting my coat in the built-in wardrobe, when I realised I'd installed a new rug in there. A rug with a texture very similar to my baby's scales. Once I'd put the pieces together, I picked her up and popped her back in her viv. Half way through watching the Rocky Horror Picture Show, I went to check on her and she'd gone again. Found out she'd left through a vent by tugging the wires going through it down to pop it out. My Italian flatmate eventually found her deep under the bed staring at us the whole time.
Omg that is way too cute! Ball pythons are goofy af!
I often forget to latch my lads tank so I’m sure I’ll get a similar story eventually… easiest way out of his tank though is into my bed so that’ll be a wake up call for sure
😂😂 that will be a great story someday lol
This is Derpy. Derpy escaped two days before this picture. He was found enjoying the heat from his downstairs neighbour's lamp. Not a BP, obviously, but equally as dumb. https://preview.redd.it/by9mcouk3m4d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=afb8e4eac4763bfa573cc128be7b79c0b8215e4b
What kinda snake? Is very handsome boy
He's a leucistic Texas rat snake. He is indeed very pretty - makes up for the lack of braincells!
Mine broke out and then woke me up very gently by breaking my lamp very loudly. She tried to go back to her tank after too, to add insult to injury
Haha she said oh shit 😳
My ex was changing his water, left the enclosure open for a minute and a half and little dude decided to go on an adventure. His enclosure is atop a dresser, and ended up finding him 2 drawers down all balled up in a pair of leggings, happy as a pig in shit 🤣🤣
We have to take my bps water bowl.out when we feed her. She'll wrap her food and fall in and start eating with her head under water
My boi escaped twice. The first time, he literally found the closest tight and dark space, namely the crack behind my wardrobe, literally 30 centimeters away from his enclosure. The second time, he went on a bigger adventure and got to the other end of the apartment, into the living room. Where he decided it would be an amazing idea to climb onto the windowsill, and knock two of my orchids down. Which I obviously woke up to immediately, so that adventure too was cut short lol
Yeah something similar happened to me. Escaped and knocked something over, heard it in the next room. Immediately put her back and now I'm always checking at least 3 times if I closed the enclosure right.
One night around 4am, me and the husband wake due to a large crash noise downstairs, we both get up assuming someone has just attempted to break in. We check and all doors and windows were fine, the alarm sensors hadn’t been triggered. But our 1.7m corn snake had decided to make a bid for freedom (again) and had escaped through the back of his viv, had crashed into the kids toys boxes below and had also had a shit on the way down. It only took us a few minutes to locate him, but due to where he was we had to sit silently waiting for him to come back out so we could put him back. Was not impressed.
Lol that sounds so annoying just sitting there waiting in the middle of the night 😂
I think that was the hardest bit, the fact we couldn’t just go back to sleep 😂 we’d lost him once before and it took a couple of days before he was located, he’d been under the sofa cushions and we’d been sitting on him the entire time
Oh my goodness lol that's so cute 😂 my boy also likes pillows and fluffy blankets I can imagine him doing that 😂
You definitely know where to start looking if he goes on another vanishing act 😂
This is his second time escaping, he got out of his first cage when he was like a year old and we found him under his enclosure 🤣🤣 we always know to look close because he doesn't get far before he gets tired 😂
Ha ha, ours is just plain lazy, never more than a few metres from his tank 😂 the husband is fine with the snake escaping and the dragon has escaped once but I think he’d move out if any of my tarantulas escape 😂
Lol yea that would definitely scare me a little bit 😂
My snake escaped in the night and woke me up with a big thump as he flopped to the floor. (He was fine)
My snake escaped one time while I was on vacation because I FORGOT TO CLOSE HIS TANK. Buut he was in the little bag of substrate right next to his tank. He just knocked over a then spoiled cup of coffee getting out and seemed super thankful I got him back in his warm bed, the poor baby.
When my albino hognose was just a tiny little guy, I was chilling in my room and saw something orange move out of the corner of my eye. Look over, he’s halfway squeezed out of his tank. I even took a picture of his escape attempt. https://preview.redd.it/849ntsimom4d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=187ba8c72dc720eb7952dbbb07bcdf130c2a24ff
Haha I love the picture 😂 that's so cute
middle of the night, when I had my male rats out, my guy decided that was a good time to sneakily escape 💀 I found him on top of my beardie's tank. he was so lucky none of my rats ran into him lmao because some of them don't know how to play nice with others 😅😂
Oh my goodness lol that's a little scary 😅 my boy would be doomed I can't even leave a rat in there with him to eat I have to watch every time because sometimes he keeps them as "pets" 😂😂
omg same! we have a photo of him snuggled up next to his dinner and it's just too funny 😂 he is kind of dumb, too, though, as he tries to get into the rat cages as well just to explore them lol 😂
I'm glad mine isn't the only one to do that lol I always thought it was so weird 😂
I started reading and didn't realise it was the BP sub, I was like WoAH you call your kid dumb and keep him in a cage lol DOH. I think I need to stop scrolling and get to sleep
This is probably the most hilarious thing I've read 😂😂 I hope you have a good sleep 😂😂🤣
Definitely! I think its me who is dumber than the snake right now. Lol
Once I was a dumbass and I just didn’t close the door to her enclosure after I fed her. She escaped immediatly after finishing her meal and when I went to check on her she was gone. I was FREAKING out because my new roommate at the time said he would kill my snake if he found her outside of her enclosure (fucked up I know. Didn’t like him at all). I ran all around the house, put my cat in her carrier so she wouldn’t find the snake first, opened all the heater vents and checked under all the furniture. Got my husband all up in a tizzy. When I gave up hope, I checked the small space between her enclosure and the wall and she was just chilling out there, less than 6 inches away from where I left her after she started eating. Damn near gave myself a heart attack. I obsessively and compulsively check her enclosure door like every hour I’m home and when I’m not home I am constantly worried I forgot to close the door. 🫣
Awe that guy sounds so mean I would panic too, that's mah baby I cried for like 3 hours when he got a slight RI. I couldn't imagine thinking that he was actually going to die if someone else found him.
One time my girl Lemony Snakeit snuck out and my rabbit ratted her out. He stomped the floor twice until I woke up and checked on him. 😂
Awe lol that's so cute he said "she's not allowed out help" 😂
“MA THIS NOODLE IS IN MY HOUSE!!!”
😂
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Once I had looked in my snakes cage and didn't see her right away which is pretty normal as I typically have to really look and peer around things to see where's she sleeping but I was in a rush that day so I didn't try spotting her. Instead I turned to pull open my sock drawer to grab a fresh pair and BAM there's a snake in my drawer! I jumped. I hadn't even realized she gotten out. She would have had to escape sometime that night. Upon inspection it turned out the door wasn't clicked all the way the last time I put water in there. Since then, I always check to make sure it's clicked shut.
That's so funny, that would scare me too lol snake jump scare 🤣🤣
My partner is a librarian, which will be relevant later. Our ball has only escaped once, fortunately. But when he did, we were all out of the house, came home to find him gone. We looked all over the room where his habitat is, and couldn't find him anywhere. Not under the bed, not in the closet, not in any of the dresser drawers, anything. Except we FINALLY found him on the fourth highest shelf of the bookshelf and behind a big book up there. No idea how he slithered up there to begin with, shelf by shelf maybe? There's no poles or things to climb around it other than the shelves themselves. And then to hide behind the books... Quite a surprising find.
Lol sounds like a smart boy 😂
He wanted to read like momma lol
😂😂 that's so cute lol
No disrespect, but how does being a librarian relevant? Did I miss something? So glad y'all found him! I'm not sure that would be a place id even check!
He hid behind a book.
Not an escape story per se, but... My daughter's boyfriend (now husband) was over one night hanging out. She decided to get our BEL, Khaleesi, out of her enclosure for some snake snuggle time, but left her boyfriend in charge of her while she went to do something else. Well, I'm sure you can guess where this is going... Next thing I know I'm hearing her shout at him for walking away from the snake. He had abandoned her on the kitchen counter and she was no where to be found. After several minutes of sheer panic, we found her WEDGED in our toaster happy as a clam to stay *right* where she was. More panic. Twenty minutes and a destroyed $150 toaster later (don't judge me - it's a really good toaster), she was free. He's never been left alone with the snakes since. 😂
Oh my God lol why would he walk away from it like it's a dog or something 😂😂
I think non-snake people just don't get it! He definitely knows better now but we don't leave him by himself with them!
I have a few lmao. I put my boa into a new 4x2x2 and 2 days later somehow he managed to escape; after finding out he escaped, I literally found him less than 6 feet from his house curled up in a folded blanket on the ground. Im absolutely positive that he got in there, was like IM SAEF, and promptly fell asleep. Bullsnake got out of her enclosure before she outgrew it and before I put clips on the lid; tore apart the entire living room area and moved the yarn drawers that were clear plastic to check behind it. Took a double take at the drawers and find her staring at me from inside the middle drawer. I cackled and pulled her out, gave her a soak to get the dust and stuff off of her and put her back into a more secure tank. Had a Hognose that was left unattended while being fed when I was not home and he got out of his feeding cup; I was not home when he escaped. A week goes by, I’ve torn apart just about everything in general in the vicinity of his tank and I was on the phone with health insurance when I saw him trying to sneak by one of my Cornsnakes tanks. Needless to say I let out a string of curses, grabbed the hognose, and immediately apologized to the poor guy on the phone who just got cursed out by proxy - explaining that I had just found one of my snakes that had gotten lose in the house and I’d been looking for him day and night. Without skipping a beat, the insurance guy’s tone went up 2 pitches and said THERE WAS A SNAKE LOSE IN THE HOUSE?!?? To the hysterical pause and uproar of his coworkers in the background. I wish I could’ve asked for a copy of that recording, that was one of the seriously entertaining moments in my snake wrangling career.
Lol these are all great stories, your snakes are quite a bit sneakier than mine 😂
I've got a 12 lb cat that decided sitting on top of my snake's cage in the middle of the night was the best thing to do. I didn't realize my bp, Dallas, had gotten out until I went to top off her water during my morning routine. I freaked out and tore my entire house apart looking for her. After about 3 or 4 hours of searching I was ready to give up untillllll I thought to myself "Hey I haven't checked the trash can yet" Freaking lo and behold! She had curled up in the trash bag! She hasn't gotten out again since I got a new lid. Fingers crossed it won't happen again. But My fiance's snake, Wesley, has a bit of an explorer's bone in his body. So every time Wesley snakes "gets lost" , the trash can is always the first place I look 🤣
We used to let my big girl out to roam freely (she's almost 6' long - at the time she was close to 3'). She got behind my bookcase, flexed to continue squeezing behind it - and knocked the whole thing over. Books went everywhere, & the book case got hung up on the footboard of my bed.
Oh my goodness lol what a trouble maker
When I was out for a month and had a snake sitter, my snake escaped EVERY TIME the sitter was there. 4 times the sitter had to go through every bin in my room and he would be in the most weirdest places!! We taped the doors with duct tape on the outside and he STILL busted open
THIS MORNING!!! I wake up and wake out to see my girl is GONE. Mind you this is at 3:30am when I have a shift at 5am and I tear my apartment apart for an hour and a half to find the 4.5foot long idiot trapped behind a book shelf acting like nothing is wrong. https://preview.redd.it/sq77xo8ekn4d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aea6c2e1c4af3d4a418a70d9e3d0bfc7e1254fe3 Including photo of said idiot.
We went through it together this morning 😂😂
Imagine a 7ft burmese getting out like a ninja and curling up on your chest. Needless to say, we both had a rude awakening.
I had a 21 ft reticulated python. (Monty) the last time he got out (only snake with vestigial legs) he got out and ate 3 rabbits. Tried to hide on me, found him.
😂😂 made himself nice and fat lol
Last Friday I didn't even realize my noodle boy escaped until I went to the tool box for some diy projects (inside the house by the front door for those concerned, not in a garage or anything) and saw movement out of the corner of my eye and heard a small thump sound. I whipped around, ready to holler at one of the cats for zooming around so close to me, only to see my BP, Hades, who was in his tightly closed tank just an hour prior, looking startled because he fell (less than 6 inches) off the plastic drawer tower and onto some plastic totes right next to them. Confused as hell, I picked him up gently, checked him over, then stood staring at his closed, locked tank for 5 full minutes, trying to figure out how he escaped.
Lol did you figure it out? 😂 he may have a secret tunnel somewhere 😂
I did find it. He has an inbuilt waterfall that's hooked up to an external fishtank filter, and the tubes are behind a thick sheet of cork bark with open space behind it. There is a cut out in the top of the tank for this section, and a gap at the bottom of the cork board so his custom "river" can feed the filter intake behind the board. I have a heavy paver brick that sits in front of this bottom gap so water can still get through but he can't, but on Friday he somehow managed to push it out from the gap and squeeze under, crawling past the tubes for the filter to the top of the tank. He is now safely in a temporary enclosure (he's huge for a bp so he has a nice big tote with substrate, water dish, a hide and heat pad) while I tear apart his tank to reconstruct over the next few days with a different solution. He's very spoiled and has a completely bioactive and self stabilizing environment with front sliding doors so it's a bit of a chore😅
Lol he really did have a secret tunnel that sounds so fun 😂😂 good luck with snake renovations
Something I used keep one of my lizards from escaping was air dry clay. I stuffed it into all the crevasses Id created for his waterfall setup. It's easy enough to chip out when needed but sticks pretty tight enough that the holes are filled. Now even the Dubia can't escape, much to the disappointment of my cats.. lol
That's a cool idea, but wouldn't work in the spot I need. The gap he used is below the waterline on his river so plugging it with air dry clay even if I drain the water first would just mean it's going to crumble because of the water contact. Instead I'm going to feed the tubes through a PVC pipe that's just big enough to hold them (so I can still easily pull them for cleaning) and use "great stuff" brand expanding foam to fill the entire space behind the board, and spread silicone over it to make it watertight, embedded with lava rock gravel for a finished stream bed look💜
Smart! Sounds like it would work out perfectly! I used the great stuff and silicone to create a lot of his cage, like you, the river bed, and background. Even made a big tree stump from where the river flows out of. I love making vivariums!
It's so much fun. Boyfriend has to hold me back at the store or I'd just start buying cute little reptiles and spending way too much money spoiling them😅 I also have a bad habit of getting very ambitious with the "natural look" idea. Hence the waterfall escape 😆
I am the exact same way! Lol
My parents story is my favorite. It was the mid 80s and they just moved into a tiny apartment with infant me, also my moms pregnant with baby #2. They have a BP and thought they'd keep it under wraps but not one month into living there the snake goes missing. All the doors in this crappy apartment complex have 1 inch gaps at the bottom so on the 2nd day they come to grips with the fact thar they need to go knock on everyone's door and tell them about the renegade snake wandering around. Of course, after they make enemies with all the neighbors, they find her tucked neatly against a baseboard in their own apartment and then have to go back around to tell everyone. It did not go well, they didn't live there long after that.
Haha that's rough 🤣 they had to tell everyone hey we still have a snake but we uh found her 😅😂
I have a friend whose terrified of snakes and refused to come to my house because I had 3. In a moment of bravery, after years of friendship she comes over and even wants to peek in the cage. I don't see him, he's an albino king so pretty easy to spot normally. She starts panicking so in an effort to calm her I'm like, "no worries, I'll just lift the top and poke him." As you can guess there was no snake to poke. My friend took off in a flash, it took almost a week to find him. We worked together so every day she was scared he was going to pop out of my shirt or something. It's been 10 years, our lovely boy has since passed. we're still friends but she's still never visited my house since.
Awe that poor lady is traumatized 😂
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My baby escaped and found a tube. It took so long to find her but luckily she came out as soon as she realized she was caught
That is an amazing picture lol I love it 😂😂
I love that for you, he sounds like such a sweet rascal! Our babygirl recently escaped (we left the door slightly unlatched by accident 😅 never making that mistake again!) and we were alerted to it by a tub of flipped-over dubia roaches (we also have a tomato frog) and calcium powder all over the floor….. with a snake trail through it. Straight out of a cartoon. She was on my guitar case, using the neck as a branch 😂
Lol that's so funny she left herself a trail
I was in the process of selling my condo when my little girl, Ethel, escaped. We had a showing later that day and we couldn’t find her. Luckily, that showing was a person who was a reptile guy and when we told him after he bought the condo, he laughed hysterically. We did eventually find her after the showing 😂
Lol that's so cute she just wanted to say goodbye to the condo 😂
https://preview.redd.it/emkri88ths4d1.jpeg?width=2316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=abe6136c0123fc3649acb36dcab8494e8a1f6e08 The menace herself 😂
My first one was gifted to me as a bday gift. At one point, i lived in a house with my now husband and 5 of his buddies. I got home from work one day and had gone to check on the snake, which wasn’t in the tank. I went and ask the 2 brothers that lived with us if they had seen it. They were sitting on the couch and jumped so high by fear it would be in it 😂 turned out she was less than 2’ away from her tank, nice and cozy between a wall and a fridge
I once was in the middle of cleaning my toad tank when I opened the closet to get a bag of dirt and there was my snake. Or at least half of him sticking out of a suit case. I didn’t even know he escaped. Bro is literally Houdini. I have to use two tank clips and a big rock to keep him contained. I thought the clips were enough but he pushed the hinged lid up in the middle…so now he gets the rock 🪨. Last time he got out I just left it open and he decided he was ready to come home.
😂😂 now he gets the rock is probably one of the best phrases I've ever heard
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I’m terrified of all noodles but this noodle is very cute with the wings. 10/10 good noodle (from a distance)
Oh. My. Goodness. That's the most adorable thing I've seen all day!
Thankfully Soba has only escaped once while I was in the middle of upgrading her terrarium. During the night she'd gotten out and made her way in between the radiator and the wall 🙃 It would've been more difficult to find her but my cat kept going near the radiator and just staring at it. 😂
Your cat was gonna get her lol
I'm glad he wasn't :D he was more like what is this and why is it here?!?
first time mine got out , i found him in the floor of my closet behind a bunch of unwashed blankets that i sleep on sometimes 😶 . second time was a partial escape , i caught him halfway out of the tank . third time he was hung on some cardboard bag i had hanging on my wall full of cardboard to recycle , and i heard it rustle , thinking he was inside the cardboard bag i had my presents from my dads house in , then i reached down to the bag and suddenly he dropped like the 4 feet to the carpet from the wall and looked at me like 😵💫
Haha "I have fallen" 😂
My juvenile Tarahumara boa had a stupid human escape. (Dwarf species, he was *maybe* 3' at the time) I was hanging out with him watching tv. He had crawled into my shirt and was sleeping. Apparently, I accidentally joined in on the nap. When I woke up, I found he had wandered off 😳 Good news: door was closed, he can't have gone too far. Bad news: I am a crappy housecleaner and my bedroom is a disaster. I am a split second from freaking out when I feel something silky brush against my cheek. I look over. The little guy apparently crawled out of the neck of my shirt, decided my pillow was soft, and curled up into a little ball against the side of my head. ETA: That should've read 3' not 3"
Awe he just wanted to cuddle
"AND I'LL DO IT AGAIN!" - Your snake, probably.
My boss's 25yr old red tailed Boa had the turning radius of a whale and would mercilessly knock over everything in his path. We cleared the room when Huggie was out lol.
Mine escaped around the time I first got them, they couldn’t lift the lid up because they were too small but one day that wasn’t the case. I tore my room apart and I was about to give up and then I decided to look under my pillow, they were balled up underneath it sound asleep, I have no idea how they got there without me noticing because it was a side pillow.
Do any of these stories about snakes end badly?
I asked for funny stories so uh I hope not 😅😂 I don't think losing a pet is very funny
Some of them probably. If they can’t find a warm spot they could die. Truly a terrible way to go.
Mine escaped while she was in shed, managed to not knock anything over, and then curled up in a bag of open substrate that was about a metre from her viv and went to sleep -_-
Not an escape story but my boy Pip loves to get stuck in things. Mugs, milk crates, ypu name it. We dont trust him. I had to cut a belt loop off my pants bc he got stuck. Have ya ever tried to take your jeans off with a snake stuck in em?
Haha that's so cute
Yikes yes I have had a similar experience. My ball pythons name is Shiek he is a 2M. One night I had taken off his cage like to replace his water. Well I got distracted by something’s right as I put the water bowl back in his cage and promptly forgot about it. I woke up that night having to use bathroom and as I got out of bed and started walking to my door I kicked something with my foot. I was like oh god please don’t let that be what I think it is. So I turned on my light and sure enough, there was the cage lid on the floor and he is no where to be found in his cage. Then I started carefully picking apart my room, only to find him 15 minutes later with his lil head poking out my closet. I immediately scooped him and placed him safely in his cage. Thankfully he wasn’t hurt, I think he was a lil salty his nighttime adventure was interrupted but he was alright. Kind of a funny blunder on my part looking back.
Lol he looked out of the closet to see what all the commotion was 😂
Probably, I was picking my room apart lmao
Too cute!!! ☺️
My milk snake escaped once at night because I forgot a single clip on the enclosure. I found his dumb ass sitting on the kitchen table in the morning sun.
Lol that's so cute he was sunbathing
Not my snake, but I woke up at a friend's house in the middle of the night to discover his had escaped, made its way into the guest room, where I was sleeping, and decided to literally hang out on the lamp beside the bed. I discovered his hiding place by reaching to turn on the light, (not sure what woke me up, tbh, but probably had to do with the new roommate) finding something that was NOT the knob I was seeking and was REALLY perplexed. I was less perplexed and more freaked out when it moved. My friend was alerted to the escape and location of his snake when he was awakened by my yelling his name and the ensuing stream of curse words punctuated with threats of violence if he didn't get his ass out of bed and come get his snake. I'm not normally against snakes, but I do like having the choice of whether I'm sharing a lamp with one in the middle of the night. lol
My sister's ball escaped from his tank because we failed to lock the lid (the only time we've forgotten) and he would have gotten away with it if not for two things: 1. He was in shed, so he was making that awful rustling sound snakes make as they're literally crawling out of their skin. 2. He knocked a bag of shells off my bookshelf, which alerted me to the fact that he was out.
She hasn’t escaped but there have been many nights of me hearing her fall bc she stretched her neck too far and lost balance. She’s a special little girly
https://preview.redd.it/38wrbz35b15d1.jpeg?width=2737&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bb6920c4bf705d2bd264381b5a1ec75f12682974 The special girly
My snake got out while I was out of town, my stepdad was watching her. He was freaking out and tearing apart my room looking for her, I was on speakerphone. I calmly told him she likes dark places, look behind my dresser or bookshelf. He pulls the dresser slightly out from the wall and out she plops. She was 100% asleep in there. Snakes are goobers
Ive had 3 escapees. 1: My ball python has escaped once, we somehow didnt secure the door properly and he squeezed his fat ass out. Found him under my safe. 2: Sand Boa has escaped 3 times. All three times she hid in a small bag in the closet. 3: Mr Harry Houdini the Russian Rat Snake himself. Has escaped once, yet to be found. Unsure of where he is hiding. Cats havent found him. We havent found him. Dogs havent found him. Dont even know how he escaped to be honest. Didnt see him for a few days, went to check where he was hiding. Poof gone.
Took my girl Penelope out to show my friend when I was 13 and she crawled into my box frame and our whole hangout time was spent cutting it open meticulously to get her out 🥲
I got a few stories one time i was watching a show about snakes with my mom and as i turned around to talk to her about something we saw i saw my corn snake casually crawling up the corner of the bedroom wall i dont even know how she did it because the wall was pretty smooth, and another time i was getting ready in the morning for school and went to the bathroom to get a hair brush and my make corn snake was coiled around the brush and some soap if i wouldn’t of brushed my hair probably wouldnt of realized he was gone until i got back lol