IM DESPERATE!!!

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TheOneThatGotAway

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My 18-or-so-inch ball python got out of his tank last Friday. I looked all over my room and several other rooms, left his heat lamp out over a spot on the floor, put some food out, and left flour on the floors to catch his trails and he hasn't showed a single sign of still being alive.

It's possible my dog ate him, I know that...And my dad thinks it's possible he got into the wall through the baseboards, but I don't think he could fit his head in....

I know too that people say their snake showed up weeks, months, even a year after they escaped, but I can't handle waiting that long.

Please, any and all help is appreciated.
 
Check under all of your fridges.
 
Btw, it seems your username is fitting...
 
It'll turn up eventually lol
 
just hope you dont smell it ... thats when you know its bad ..

but yea look for places that make heat .. behind or around a computer or something like that .. try to think about all the places that would be warm and there is a good chance thats where its at
 
You can try the warm places first but sometimes a snake will trade heat for someplace it feels more secure so it may not be in a warm place. The only way to know for sure is to look EVERYWHERE, even places you think it could not be. Get someone or more than one person if you can to help out. Start the search in one room and go through everything and systematically scour through the entire house one room at a time. Make sure everyone helping you knows how fragile snakes can be so that they are careful when moving heavy objects so as not to hurt the snake. Good luck, I hope your dog didn't get it. Also try humid places. Remember those stories in the news where a woman finds a "Giant Killer Python" in her toilet and it turns out it is actually a 2 foot long ball python? Seems to happen now and then.
 
Look at night time. Snakes always go along the edges of things more than they will travel around throught the open. Could put something like toothpicks or flour or rolled up newspaper etc along the side of the walls. It'll be more active at night, so you could wait it out if you think you know what room it's in.

At that size, you'll basically have to take everything apart. They can get in anywhere, but I'd check areas of heat first, particularly if your room temp. is cool. All electronics- inside speakers, behind stereos and tvs, by fridges.

Good luck in trying to find it. I lost a snake in a car and found it 2-3 months later- like you said they can turn up a long time after you lose them so you can never really give up.
 
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