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callmechook

Last Saturday a friend popped over and as he has a passion for snakes but a wife that doesn't like em, ours all came out for a cuddle. My son duly put his lovely little snow stripe corn away after and all was well until a day or so after. Doing the usual water checks etc he opened the container and lo and behold she had vanished from the (he assures me) properly secured box Needless to say the room in which she lives was then systamatically searched including the insides and undersides of sofa's, in the curtains, other boxes, you name it we checked it. Finally, the room now in ruins and tempers fraying a little we gave up.

I decided that as the room was already upside down I might as well make some changes to where some of the animals were living which would then allow me to finally build some bigger viv's I've been planning for a while so we started to move things around. One of the major things to move was the four foot tank which is home to our little Indonesian water dragon and I opened the tank ready to get the dragon out prior to stripping the tank out to move it.

She's quite flighty amd I expected her to make a run for it but she was sitting very still in one corner of the tank and a closer look explained why.

I don't know who was winning but she and the missing snake were locked in a competition to stare each other out.

Neither the dragon or the snake were particularly happy but she was safely recovered and returned to her home and the dragon was relocated as well.

I posted this as yet another example that once again when your looking for that missing snake, nowhere is too unlikely for them to get to and when your thinking 'naw it couldn't be in there', thats probably exactly where the d**n thing is !!!!

cass · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:02 am Post subject:

I was talking to some1 the other day whos corn went missing , she found it behind the sink on the warm pipes bl**dy things lol
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Just A Beginner · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:09 am Post subject:

A few years ago I woke up to see my big female amel corn in my bed! She's escaped in the night and since it was cold and there were no warm radiators or pipes to sit by, she climbed in to share my electric blanket the cheeky mare.

Thankfully I'm a very dead to the world and unmoving sleeper or I might have injured her!
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callmechook · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:24 pm Post subject:

Aw bless shows she knew you would warm her up tho babes, sadly the Snow in the post tried escaping again about a week later, got stuck in the box lid and died so those boxes are only used for rodents and bugs etc now but it will be a long time until I forget the look of relief on both their faces when the 'standoff' was interrupted Laughing

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garysumpter · CaptiveBred Addict! Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 914

My Amel corn, still pretty small. managed to squeeze out of her tub last week (which has now been secured).

How did I know?

For the first time in months, our dog, a King Charles Cavalier, was sleeping in my room.

He was whining at about 3 in the morning, so i got out of bed and flicked on the light.

The snakes was about 20cm from the end of the dogs nose, they were just looking at each other.

It shocked me, could have been worse, luckily our dog has the intelligence of a waxworm.

Needless to say all tub lids have been secured and the dog sleeps downstairs all the time!

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Just A Beginner · Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 3:03 pm Post subject:

Aww no,

sorry to hear about that. RIP little snow stripe.
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callmechook · Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 5:04 pm Post subject:

My Amel corn, still pretty small. managed to squeeze out of her tub last week (which has now been secured).

Thank god you found her hon I'm glad to hear both were ok I'm sure she's nice and safe now. xxx

Aww no, sorry to hear about that. RIP little snow stripe.

Yup gutted hon not only our very first snake but an absolutley irreplacable one in terms of her temperament. We loved her to bits but whats done is done and a hard lesson learned . xxxxxxx