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 Posted - 02/03/2009 : 22:15:30
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Hi there, I'm new here and am desperate for help!!
Approximately 2 weeks ago my sister moved down south and took her corn snake + tank with her. When she arrived, she found the snake to be missing. She took the car to a garage and had it taken apart and mini cameras put inside all the vents, but no luck. She gutted her new house to make sure the snake hadn’t found her way into bags of clothing in the car but again, no luck. We know 100% that the snake was in the tank when it was put in the car as my sister took her out to show her friend, then put her back in.
Anyway, today we received a phone call from the RSPCA (we reported the snake missing) to say that a man three quarters of a mile away has seen an orange corn snake in his garden and it might be ours. If this is the case, she must have escaped as soon as my sister put her back in the tank as the car doors were left open while she loaded the car with the rest of her belongings. We have been around to the man’s house and the snake is under his shed. We were unable to see it, so still aren't certain it's ours. Do you think it's likely to be? To get there, she would have had to slither down our estate, through woodland and onto the next estate. I thought that with the weather being as cold as it is that she wouldn’t have wanted to move very much??
She'll be very hungry by now. She was being fed fuzzy mice. Are there any alternatives that she could have eaten in 'the wild'?
Most importantly, do you have any idea how we can catch her? I've read about putting food in a 2litre bottle to temp her in and she'd be trapped as she'd be too big to get out. Would that work? The owner of the shed wants to dismantle it asap.
Any advice you could offer would be GREATLY appreciated.
Many thanks.
Louise. :(
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matty18714
The Count of Corniness
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Posted - 02/03/2009 : 22:20:19
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| There Is a possibility that the snake is yours, and that it could have eaten in the wild. If the owner of the shed is keen to take it down can he not take it down carefully and retreive the snake? |
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Janos
Hatchling
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Posted - 02/03/2009 : 22:26:49
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| Hm, yeah..I'd think it'd be best to carefully dismantle the shed. |
1.0.0 Normal Royal Python - Ozzy
0.1.0 Anerythristic Corn Snake - Astra
0.1.0 Leopard Gecko - Zilly
0.0.1. - Sinaloan's Milksnake, Harley
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Kehhlyr
ǝʞɐɔ sǝʌoן
United Kingdom
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Posted - 03/03/2009 : 13:36:54
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| Depending on how big and sturdy the shed is, you could support it, and tilt the whole thing as well. |
-=Kehhlyr - The Resident Loon
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Posted - 03/03/2009 : 21:05:33
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Perhaps the offer of a free hand to dismantle the shed might persuade a gentle approach to dismantling it
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1.0.0 Tom a 10 month old Flourescent orange Corn 29 inches and growing fast
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