Greatest escape thread!

[SimonL]

Ok guys and gals, what's your greatest animal escape (and don't pretend like you've never had one happen )?

Mine is a tie between;

I had a pair of Russian sand boas, one of which was much larger than the others...Then the smaller one vanished from my "escape proof" tall tank with the lid still on...I assumed the larger one ate him, only to have him crawl over my arm several months later while I was lying in bed (fortunately alone).

Second is my Alligator snapping turtle. I removed a large rock from his tank to prevent him climbing out. The next day I found him wandering around the basement (presumably searching for his beloved lost rock).

 

[Kioka]

My boa, Percival, managed to escape his bin because I didn't snap the lid on right. I woke up to him sleeping, well curled up, on my chest the morning after. I was surprised and panicked, and thought "Woha. I got another boa." I didn't recognize him at first.

I looked around... and he moved a few cages and knocked over a whole bunch of stuff.

 

[kittyhazelton]

In the early stages of DIY enclosure building I had my burm escape. I woke up in the morning to stuff crashing off the headboard of my bed, something that the cats are normally doing, and reached up to feel something not fuzzy, but smooth and cold. There he was all 6' of him stretched out accross the headboard.
The 2nd time (same enclosure) we found him in the bathroom stretched accross the sink and counter, with his head sticking down in the toilet drinking out of it.
We've rebuilt the enclosure a few times since, and have not had any more escapes.

 

[cmj15]

my greatest escape story would be with my ball python which is 4'2" long and 3" in diameter, i had a waterfall in his aquaium at the time and i had to make a 1/2" hole for the wire to run the motor for the waterfall, he fit through the hole and i went for a 4 hour snake hunt only to find him 6' away from his cage in a closet

 

[SimonL]

Lucky you still have your cats lol. Ah the old python and the toilet story, landlord and tenants nightmare alike...

 

[Jeox]

Alligator lizard pushed the lid open, was found 6 months later.

 

[mike dunagan]

my great escape is my african side neck turtle that moved some decorations so it could climb up into the filter and pushed the top off it, then from there 2 feet down into another level with a sink turned the water on... then onto the floor across the room next morning...

later that month...after putting a lock on the filter did it again... no longer can do that...

 

[muckieman]

my collard lizard escaped not sure how but he got out of my brothers room in the middle of a hurrican found 1 week later died...though starftainon wouldnt eat after that tramtized....mabye. only i had so far.(i don't have snakes )

 

[klmt]

ym story is not of escape but of stupidity on my part. I was letting her walk around my room whle i cleaned her cage, and i forgot to close my door. when i went to put her back in the cage i could not find her and i saw my male staring straight at the door. i thought oh no, she has to be in my room, so i looked around my closet and room not finding her, a bit down the hallway i looked in my sister's room she was not in there, by this time my sister was freaked. i looked a bit in my brother's room 20 feet down the hallway not expecting anything and again found nothing. my sister was convinced it was in her room so she slept in my brothers room on the floor.(she is 15, and my bro is 11) didnt find her that night and went to bed and went to school the next morning. while i was at school my dad found her sleeping under my brother's bed, about a foot from my sisters head as she slept. she thought that was funny.lol

 

[Vicious_Fish]

I've had many gecko species over the years and on occasion I would forget to close the top of an enclosure from time to time. My littlest escape artist was a 3 inch long Mediterranean Gecko. I lost her for 3 months in my house. I figured I'd never see her again and that my Jack Russell Terrier would kill her on the spot if she found her. Well one morning when I was getting ready for school I heard a scream coming from the kitchen. I guess my mom was about to pour a cup of coffee when my gecko ran out of her mug and across the counter where I caught her and put her back in her tank. She was a bit skinny but in remarkably good shape.