If none of the above steps have netted you a safe and sound snake, it’s time to roll up our sleeves. It can even feel the vibration of you walking across the floor. Don’t do anything that would alert it to your presence. You want your snake to feel safe to come out of hiding.
You also want to sit quietly for up to several hours if you’ve gotten to this point. You don’t want it searching too hard to find an ideal spot, or it could end up being inside the water heater, or anything else that puts off heat like electronics. It’s important to do this in every room of your home. The idea is to get them searching for heat, and finding it in the locations of your choice. This can be hides from their enclosure, shoe boxes, baskets, whatever you have. Place these heat sources in each room along with a good hiding place. Use whatever you have, heating pads, hot water bottles, heat lamps…anything. Lower the temperature of your home down to around 60 degrees, turn the fan switch to “On” instead of “Auto”, and set up some heat sources. That little bugger must be good! That’s OK because we are too, and we’re not giving up! If you haven’t found your snake by now, it’s time to start getting crafty. Thorough searching is the number one way to find a lost snake. Most of the time you will find your lost snake by this point. The more commotion and noise you make while looking for it, the more likely it is to hunker down and stay in place.Ĭontinue searching your entire home, room by room, until you are out of places to search.
It’s either waiting to ambush prey, or hiding and waiting until it’s safe to come out and hunt. The longer it is out, the further it might go, but in the beginning you have to assume it has found a hiding place close by and is doing what snakes do. Like I said earlier, your snake is not likely to go very far right away. You don’t want it sneaking back into a room you’ve already explored when you’re not looking!Īs to where you should hunt next, I prefer to be methodical and begin searching adjacent rooms. Once you are 100% certain the snake is not anywhere in its room, it’s time to fan out.īefore you do so however, be sure to close the door to its room and lodge some towels or blankets under the door so your snake can’t get back in. You’ve got a better than 50/50 chance of finding your lost snake with this one step. And you do this with EVERY nook, cranny and object in that room. Literally examine every square inch of the furniture inside and out. You carefully turn that couch upside down and try to check the inside of the frame. You pull off every cushion, and search every square inch of that cushion to ensure there are no holes in the fabric it could slip into. This means you don’t just look under a couch. Snakes don’t like to be out in the open much, so the first thing it’s usually going to do is find a place to hide. You need to check the room as thoroughly as possible. Most of the time it is still in the same room. When you first notice your snake is missing, you’ve got a pretty good chance that it hasn’t gone very far. Start a search near the snake’s enclosure. Just start out by getting them safely out of the way and locking them up so you don’t have to babysit them while you’re doing step 2.Ģ. I’m getting a little ahead of myself though, because using your other pets to find your snake takes more time. On the flip side, these guys can actually aid you in your search! You don’t want them finding your snake before you do! If you have dogs or cats who may attack or injure your snake, you should lock them up right away.
Snake escape from cage how to#
Here is a step by step plan along with some good tips for how to find a lost snake. If you’ve lost your snake, don’t panic! I’m going to help you. Not everyone gets so lucky, and finding an escaped snake can be a near impossible task if you don’t have a good plan. When I went to turn the light on to check on my reptiles, I felt it coiled around the post of the lamp. It was a three foot red tail boa that had pried open the top of its aquarium, then climbed under the shade of a lamp right next to the tank. I was SO lucky in fact, that I actually found it before I even realized it had gotten out of its cage! The first time one of my snakes got loose I was lucky.
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