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SilverWings
Yearling
United Kingdom
740 Posts |
 Posted - 16/03/2014 : 21:39:18
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| So the unthinkable has happened, Boots has escaped. We don't even know how, we had her out for a cuddle last night, viv was closed, and now she's gone. We've torn the lounge upside down but there are so many places she could have gone, we even ripped out the wooden mantle screwed to the wall and found several holes where she could have gotten into the walls or floor. It's an old house with so many tiny spaces. I'm gutted, she was a grumpy cow but I miss her. The lounge is covered in flour and there's pinkies in strategic places next to hides, a viv on the floor with a heat source and hides, and we're working on a bottle trap. I hope she shows up soon :( |
2.2.3 Corn snakes; Red, Rosie, Liana, Checkers, Luna, Diego, Snowman
1.0 Taiwanese Beauty Snake; Aleron
1.0 Green Anoles; Doug
1.0 Greyhound; Lee |
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Moppet
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
3315 Posts |
Posted - 16/03/2014 : 22:32:14
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| Oh no! So sorry to hear that. I hope that she shows up soon. |
2.4.0 Corn snakes
1.0.0 horse
0.1.0 Golden retriever
1.4.0 Guinea pigs |
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Boomslang
Hatchling
United Kingdom
340 Posts |
Posted - 16/03/2014 : 23:35:29
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| Sorry to hear that,hope you find her soon :( |
1.0.0 pinstripe Royal Python
1.0.0 Bumblebee Royal Python
1.0.0 Normal corn
1.0.0 Extreme red Hognose
0.1.0 Extreme red tiger Hognose
1.1.0 yemen chameleons
1.0.0 Piebald yemen
1.0.0 Tamatave panther
1.0.0 Quadricornis
2.1.0 pygmy chameleons
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SilverWings
Yearling
United Kingdom
740 Posts |
Posted - 17/03/2014 : 07:46:48
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| No sign of any tracks in the flour this morning, pinkies are untouched and the dog hates us. We banished him to the kitchen for the night so he didn't walk through the flour. We have no idea how long she was gone before we noticed, could have been anywhere up to 16 hours. We rarely see her anyway, she's such a shy snake, so we didn't think anything was wrong when she seemed to be hiding :( |
2.2.3 Corn snakes; Red, Rosie, Liana, Checkers, Luna, Diego, Snowman
1.0 Taiwanese Beauty Snake; Aleron
1.0 Green Anoles; Doug
1.0 Greyhound; Lee |
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Razee
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2525 Posts |
Posted - 17/03/2014 : 15:08:43
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| Oh no, good luck and hope you'll find her, she's bound to come out of hiding at some point... have you tried putting down plastic bags, then, late at night, listening for a rustle? |
0.1.0 late CB10 Carolina corn snake - Bazilishka
1.0.0 CB11 Abbots Okeetee- Little Twiddler
1.0.0 CB11 Hypo corn- Sebastianek
1.0.0. CB14 Butter Motley - Squidwood
0.0.2 CB18 normal/ Okeetee yearlings Bunny and Lalalishka
0.0.1 hognose
0.1.0 stable cat
0.1.0 house cat |
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scottishbluebird
it is all my fault
United Kingdom
8403 Posts |
Posted - 17/03/2014 : 15:53:55
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 Oh no, hope you find her soon xxx |
     
0.1.0 Corn - Kellogs
1.0.0 Hognose - Storm
0.1.0 Staffy - Lyla
1.0.0 Spaffy(staffy x springer)-Spyro
1.0.0 Ferret - Peanut R.I.P
0.1.0 Crestie - Fudge. Wish List - Pygmy hedgehog. Tropiocolotes |
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LadySybil
Hatchling
United Kingdom
231 Posts |
Posted - 17/03/2014 : 18:44:26
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Have you tried braining the pinkies to make the scent stronger?
Hope you find her soon.
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0.1 Corn- Carolina- Lady Sybil Deidre Olgivanna Vimes (née Ramkin), Duchess of Ankh
1.0 Corn- Granite het charcoal- His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of Ankh; Commander Sir Samuel Vimes.
1.0 MBK- Feegle
1.0 corn- anery/ghost motley, Pewsey Ogg
0.2 Cat- Tat and Gytha |
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SilverWings
Yearling
United Kingdom
740 Posts |
Posted - 17/03/2014 : 19:21:11
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| I'm reasonably sure she got under the floorboards :/ I pulled a piece of skirting off the wall and found many, many gaps and snake shaped tunnels behind it leading down through the floorboards. Unfortunately it's a rented house with faux-wooden planks on the floorboards, so there's absolutely no chance of pulling them up, otherwise I'd do it in a blink. It's also a very old house and of we did pull the floorboards up it would probably collapse... I've left the bottle trap next to the holes with her favourite sleeping tube, hopefully she'll surface, but she regularly hides away for days at a time. |
2.2.3 Corn snakes; Red, Rosie, Liana, Checkers, Luna, Diego, Snowman
1.0 Taiwanese Beauty Snake; Aleron
1.0 Green Anoles; Doug
1.0 Greyhound; Lee |
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Dave786
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
28 Posts |
Posted - 18/03/2014 : 09:40:12
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| Any sign of Boots yet. Hope she turns up soon. |
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SilverWings
Yearling
United Kingdom
740 Posts |
Posted - 18/03/2014 : 15:54:44
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| No sign of her, and we've hoovered up the flour we left out. I've ordered a small camera to stick down the holes, hopefully we'll at least be able to see her, or see some tracks in the dust. Can't sit around doing nothing, it's killing me imagining her cold and thirsty down there. |
2.2.3 Corn snakes; Red, Rosie, Liana, Checkers, Luna, Diego, Snowman
1.0 Taiwanese Beauty Snake; Aleron
1.0 Green Anoles; Doug
1.0 Greyhound; Lee |
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lupi lou
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
3670 Posts |
Posted - 18/03/2014 : 22:09:18
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| Oh no I hope you fine her, put a bowl of water down, at least then you know she has the opportunity to access water. |
 
1.0.1 Corns
0.1.0 Dog: springer
1.0.0 Horse
0.4.0 Gerbils
2.2.0 Leopard gecko
0.2.0 Cave gecko |
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SilverWings
Yearling
United Kingdom
740 Posts |
Posted - 18/03/2014 : 22:23:55
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| I have put a bowl down, also her sleeping tube, various hides, and a heat cable and a bottle trap. We've put her old glass viv on the floor fully set up so if she does venture out she might head for the familiar surroundings. |
2.2.3 Corn snakes; Red, Rosie, Liana, Checkers, Luna, Diego, Snowman
1.0 Taiwanese Beauty Snake; Aleron
1.0 Green Anoles; Doug
1.0 Greyhound; Lee |
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tk72
Hatchling
United Kingdom
494 Posts |
Posted - 18/03/2014 : 23:13:11
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| Slim chance it could work but if you could get under your floor. ( there is usually an access panel somewhere. Ours is under the stairs) I am a firefighter and we have thermal image cameras ( and yes I know snakes are cold blooded before anyone says it) but if boots finds a heat source he may show up on it. I work in Manchester so am to far to help. If you know anyone who knows a firefighter near to you it could be worth a call to the station and ask. They may or may not but worth a try. They may say it's called a special service call (ssc) which could be chargeable so check first. if they can't help you can hire a thermal image camera from hss rental shops but there are no prices on the site you would have to ring. And the camera may not even pick up boots if he is cold. If I was closer I could have brought ours to try but I'm to far sorry. Hope you find boots soon. |
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SilverWings
Yearling
United Kingdom
740 Posts |
Posted - 19/03/2014 : 10:26:35
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Thats an idea I'll certainly look into, but unfortunately there's really no way under the floor, the best we've found is her probably escape route which is a gap behind the skirting board. Our flt is split over 2 levels with the kitchen in the basement and the lounge above it, so she's in the kitchen ceiling/lounge floor. I've scoured the kitchen hoping for a way up, but short of ripping down the ceiling there's nothing I can do (and the landlord would not be pleased if we did that).
I've jiggled the camera about a bit and not seen much, but it's floppy on the cable so I'm going to wait for OH to get back since he's more technically minded than me and he might find a solution. For now I've poked it in the hole hoping the light might inspire some curiosity so she comes to have a look. |
2.2.3 Corn snakes; Red, Rosie, Liana, Checkers, Luna, Diego, Snowman
1.0 Taiwanese Beauty Snake; Aleron
1.0 Green Anoles; Doug
1.0 Greyhound; Lee |
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SilverWings
Yearling
United Kingdom
740 Posts |
Posted - 19/03/2014 : 13:59:15
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| Found mouse droppings under the floor with the camera, and I'm thinking that's not good. If there's live prey down there then Boots is very unlikely to be tempted by our bated bottle traps. I've trained the camera on the spot with the droppings in the hopes that she comes to investigate it. Finding her seems less and less likely, we've discovered the gaps at the bottom of the wall lead to a massive bricked in chimney that leads up to the next floor. It looks easy to scale for a small snake. I'd probably better warn the lady upstairs in case she puts in an appearance o.O |
2.2.3 Corn snakes; Red, Rosie, Liana, Checkers, Luna, Diego, Snowman
1.0 Taiwanese Beauty Snake; Aleron
1.0 Green Anoles; Doug
1.0 Greyhound; Lee |
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SilverWings
Yearling
United Kingdom
740 Posts |
Posted - 20/03/2014 : 20:01:19
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| Anybody got a male king snake in breeding season mode we can borrow? My reasoning is Boots showed that behaviour earlier in the year, so maybe if there was a male giving off king snake pheromones she might be attracted to him O.o |
2.2.3 Corn snakes; Red, Rosie, Liana, Checkers, Luna, Diego, Snowman
1.0 Taiwanese Beauty Snake; Aleron
1.0 Green Anoles; Doug
1.0 Greyhound; Lee |
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tk72
Hatchling
United Kingdom
494 Posts |
Posted - 26/03/2014 : 23:37:06
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| Any signs of her at all? |
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SilverWings
Yearling
United Kingdom
740 Posts |
Posted - 27/03/2014 : 07:51:02
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| Absolutely nothing :/ I let Diego out last night for a wander, he's in full breeding mode so I'm hoping his pheromones might draw her out, she's just about reaching adolescence. Different species but worth a shot. I was also hoping he might pick up her trails, he did find a few around but they all led back to nothing :( |
2.2.3 Corn snakes; Red, Rosie, Liana, Checkers, Luna, Diego, Snowman
1.0 Taiwanese Beauty Snake; Aleron
1.0 Green Anoles; Doug
1.0 Greyhound; Lee |
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scottishbluebird
it is all my fault
United Kingdom
8403 Posts |
Posted - 27/03/2014 : 16:42:14
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| Thats a really good idea, keep trying, he might find her |
0.1.0 Corn - Kellogs
1.0.0 Hognose - Storm
0.1.0 Staffy - Lyla
1.0.0 Spaffy(staffy x springer)-Spyro
1.0.0 Ferret - Peanut R.I.P
0.1.0 Crestie - Fudge. Wish List - Pygmy hedgehog. Tropiocolotes |
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SilverWings
Yearling
United Kingdom
740 Posts |
Posted - 27/03/2014 : 22:48:17
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| He's doing a fantastic job of being a sniffer snake but he hasn't turfed her out yet. I even put him in the sofa from underneath to see if she was holed up there, but no luck :/ He quite likes the lady hunting time though lol. |
2.2.3 Corn snakes; Red, Rosie, Liana, Checkers, Luna, Diego, Snowman
1.0 Taiwanese Beauty Snake; Aleron
1.0 Green Anoles; Doug
1.0 Greyhound; Lee |
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scottishbluebird
it is all my fault
United Kingdom
8403 Posts |
Posted - 27/03/2014 : 23:33:30
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| Every time i see you have posted i really hope its good news |
0.1.0 Corn - Kellogs
1.0.0 Hognose - Storm
0.1.0 Staffy - Lyla
1.0.0 Spaffy(staffy x springer)-Spyro
1.0.0 Ferret - Peanut R.I.P
0.1.0 Crestie - Fudge. Wish List - Pygmy hedgehog. Tropiocolotes |
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Gone :(
