Help!

So, somehow my snake got out of it's cage (literally, you perverts) and
is somewhere in my house. Anyone have any ideas for catching this
thing? It's not poisonous, but it's a real pain in the ass.

I do'nt know if anyone has any experience in this field, but I need to find it, and I need to find it fast...

Napalm?

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Why don't you just leave some dead rodent on the middle of the floor
and wait? But make sure it's stinky. No, seriously, bait it.

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TEAR OUT THE WALLS BABAJKAJLKJ!!

:smile:

It will hide in a warm damp place, look behind the refrigerator and any
heating appliances you may have. It should also be noted that snakes
will crawl up into small tiny places.

It may even be advisable to call an exterminator (if your in a rush) to
find it for you. Im sure they have dealed with cases like this before.

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If you can tolerate it... just open all the widows and doors, but leave a heated (electric) blanket or two strewn about the house. As the temperature in the house drops, the snake will naturally find the warm spots, and the lowered temperature should slow it down as well!

I've no idea if this would actualy work, but it seems logical to me.

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Some people are like slinkys...

They aren?t really good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one tumbles down the stairs.

Or it'll get outside, slow down and not be able to get back in.

By its tail.. no wait thats a tiger. humm not sure.

nope, you were right money, normally that's the best way, since most snakes can't reach you when you hold them up by the tail. don't try it with a black mamba, however, because they can, and they've also got quite a nasty nip.

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SMARTASS fer da WIN! lol

Can I get the marked as the Correct answer please.. TY. =)

Also think you can grab them behind their head.

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Don't try grabbing snakes unless you're experienced at it. Even the non-venomous snakes have a nasty bite.

A simple way would be live bait. Most snakes can't resist a caged
mouse/frog. Although I'd recommend calling a professional to get it.

My snake is quite harmless, it will nip if frightened, but can't hurt you at all.

My plan, after being advised by someone else, is to take some damp
clothes and lay them on the floor, in a kind of nest, baited with a
fresh mouse. Hopefully it'll stay there...

My snake is quite harmless, it will nip if frightened, but can't hurt you at all.

My plan, after being advised by someone else, is to take some damp
clothes and lay them on the floor, in a kind of nest, baited with a
fresh mouse. Hopefully it'll stay there...

The mouse goes missing, so you get a cat to find the mouse. Then
the cat goes missing, so you bring in a dog to find the cat.... :smile:

I meant the snake stays there. I feed my snake dead mice, because
it was raised on dead food for about 2 years before I bought it.
Suddenly changing that often results in the snake getting bitten and
such.

So have you checked all the warm dark places like omega suggested?

Yeah. Right now I"m fairly certain that it's in the
basement. I'm not confident that it could have climbed the stairs
in our house, but then again I guess I wouldn't be surprised.. still
can't figure out how it escaped the terrarium...

I've checked everything in the laundry room, and near the furnace
(warmest places I can think of) and I've checked the perimeter of the
basement, behind all the furniture etc. and have come up emptyhanded.

My concern is that it's dead. It hasn't eaten in 10 days now, and
I know that it can survive that long, but it's going to be getting
weaker and maybe a little less venturous... or it'll do the opposite
and go nuts looking for food.

Maybe you could check random places... like backpacks... in a pile of dirty clothes... any place that has a nook or cranny.

My concern is that it's dead. It hasn't eaten in 10 days now, and
I know that it can survive that long, but it's going to be getting
weaker and maybe a little less venturous... or it'll do the opposite
and go nuts looking for food.

Don't worry about it not eating for a while. Snakes can go for a very,
VERY long time with out food. My 8-foot Red Tailed Boa went about 4-5
months without eating. Don't think of it as animal cruelity. We tried
to feed it a rabbit every 2 weeks and she refused. So she starved
herself to death. It sucks, but animals are stubborn too. How long is
your snake?

snakes are fairl easy to catch if you have quick hands

just get a stick or something that you can get under the front region of its body and grab the tail

or

get a forked stick or something to pin its head down then grab its neck as close to the head as possible

<span style="font-weight: bold;">lawl</span>, there's something amusing about chasing a snake around in your house. Snakes are bizarre animals.

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Snakes are cute/cool animals! Especialy when they start nibbling your
balls in the middle of the night, and one of their fangs get caught in
it!

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Snakes are cute/cool animals! Especialy when they start nibbling your
balls in the middle of the night, and one of their fangs get caught in
it!

<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">o<span style="color: gold;">mg</span></span><span style="color: gold;"><span style="color: orange;">[size=13], sounds like you've got some really dangerous snakes lurching about in Shouthern Africa !</span></span>[/size]</span>

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I'd actually suggest just killing the stupid thing. If you can't handle
it then I don't see the point of it as a pet. Only zoos and exotic
dancers should be allowed to have snakes, its a bit like keeping a
llama in your closet just to be cool.

Kill it, bury it and salt the earth my friend.

<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">o<span style="color: gold;">mg</span></span>[size=16]<span style="color: gold;"><span style="color: orange;">[size=13], sounds like you've got some really dangerous snakes lurching about in Shouthern Africa !

You have NO idea! :biggrin:

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I would love to change the world, But they would'nt give me the source code.

Have you tried the Combine pulse rifle yet? If you don't hit it,
try the secondary fire. Just make sure your house in insured
first.

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

I'd actually suggest just killing the stupid thing. If you can't handle
it then I don't see the point of it as a pet. Only zoos and exotic
dancers should be allowed to have snakes, its a bit like keeping a
llama in your closet just to be cool.

Kill it, bury it and salt the earth my friend.

Untrue. At this point I still have no idea how it got out.
I have successfully cared for it for some time, and still can't figure
out how it escaped a secure area.

Anyhoo, some new information has come to my attnetion. If a snake
escapes it's cage, it's rarely found more than 10 feet away. THus
my new plan is to put the terrairum on the ground and bait it, hoping
it'll stay by the nice hot heat lamp...

Worth a shot...

Don't Black Mamba's eat snakes? If so, just let one loose, wait a couple of days (be careful for it not to bite you in the face and kill you Kill Bill 2 style) and if your lucky, you should be able to find it about to eat your snake and get 2 snakes. If not, you keep the black mamba and still have one snake that you can use to get rid of people you don't like. You can't loose.

Unless it kills you.

Then you lose.

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Reckless disregard for childrens well being, women and nothing but utter contempt for other cultures.

Yeah, black mamba = not a good idea :smile:

Tracer Bullet said:
If you can tolerate it... just open all the widows and doors, but leave a heated (electric) blanket or two strewn about the house. As the temperature in the house drops, the snake will naturally find the warm spots, and the lowered temperature should slow it down as well!

I've no idea if this would actualy work, but it seems logical to me.

This can work, assuming you have a cool enough climate and screens on the windows to prevent escape.

Snakes like warm hot water bottles. I am not sure if they are still referred to as "hot water bottles" but its a rubber bladder that is used to place on swollen limbs and such.

Snakes prefer the dark so place it in a likely location thats low and dark.

Good luck.
I would try to avoid staking out a mouse as bait. Mothers tend to get cranky when they step on mice on cold dark nights.

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There is no history until something happens, then there is.

Sorry to revive a dead thread here, but I felt this was
interesting. I'd tried baiting it, trapping it, looking for it,
all to no avail. I gave up a month or two ago.

This morning I woke up and it was crawling across my arm. ?!?!

I still can't figure out what it ate for 3 months...

Hahah -- glad to see it resurfaced. I'm sure snankes can survive for 3 months without eating though, right?

3 months seems a bit long even for a snake... watch out for missing hamster/kitten/puppy/child posters, it could be the work of your reptilian friend.

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• My yr11 Economics teacher

Big snakes could last 3 months for sure, but the thing is this is a 4
or 5 year old Corn Snake. It didn't even seem hungry or weak when
I put it back in the terrarium, so I'm convinced it ate something...

There are mice and rats in close proximity of any house. I read
somewhere that there's more rats in Manhattan alone than humans in the
whole of NY. Perhaps your little friend just ate those.

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''Everyone wades in s**t until they're competent enough to walk on it. Jesus style.''
Dystopia - Empires

There are mice and rats in close proximity of any house. I read
somewhere that there's more rats in Manhattan alone than humans in the
whole of NY. Perhaps your little friend just ate those.

...In which case it's probably riddled with disease. You'll be dead in three weeks.