disintegratus
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So our roughly 6yo Darwin python has gotten out of her (?) enclosure and gone missing some time between 10am this morning and 7:30pm tonight. I'm not sure if her tank was unlocked, or not locked properly, but I got up tonight, her tank was open just a little bit and she was nowhere to be seen. It was definitely closed this morning, but I don't remember if the lock was on the door.
Flame away, I'm already painfully aware that this is a direct result of complacency and stupidity
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I suspect that she is either under the house (there's a small hole in the floor near her enclosure) or she's gone next door because they have tasty tasty birds, even though she ate last week so shouldn't be hungry. My rats are in my bedroom less than 10 metres from where her tank is, but I don't think she'd fit under the door which is always closed. We also have cats, which while I don't think she could eat, she could certainly kill them if she wanted to. There's also a crapload of possums in our area. I also have my ferrets in the garage, I'm not sure she would fit through the bars of the cage though.
So I guess my point is that she won't go bloody hungry, there's plenty of potential food to keep her occupied!
She's not a big girl, but is plenty big enough to fend for herself, I'm more worried about how cold it is down here, and/or the possibility of her coming into contact with neighbourhood dogs or shovels.
Unfortunately I had to go to work tonight, and because I didn't wake up til 7:30, I didn't have enough time to call in sick. I would have, but if I called in sick for a 9pm night shift at 7:30, it'd probably cost me my job, which I need to be able to afford to feed all my critters.
I looked for her, checked all the nooks and crannies I could find in that short amount of time, and have defrosted a rat and left her tank open, hopefully she'll realise that the grass is not in fact greener, but is colder, more dangerous and far less cushy than life in the box. I haven't put any flour out because our house is now stupidly open plan, so there's no way of blocking off the area from the dogs, cats or pig. Therefore, there'd be flour all over everything, not just on the floor, and it would all be gross and dogified, so would be useless for tracking snakes in.
Anyway, is there anything that I can do to kind of lure her back to her tank or general vicinity? The tank is open enough for her to go into if she does come back, but I don't know that she'd want to, considering all the animals in the vicinity as well as the fact that she left it in the first place.
The other thought that occurred to me is that she's buggered off to go look for some nookie. I know stuff all about breeding snakes, so is that a possibility at this time of year? She hasn't been cooled or anything, we've only had her for 6 months or so. If she is looking to pick up, then I can direct my search to include more of the areas around the other snake tanks as well.
Thanks everyone, and sorry I'm a terrible person.
Flame away, I'm already painfully aware that this is a direct result of complacency and stupidity
.I suspect that she is either under the house (there's a small hole in the floor near her enclosure) or she's gone next door because they have tasty tasty birds, even though she ate last week so shouldn't be hungry. My rats are in my bedroom less than 10 metres from where her tank is, but I don't think she'd fit under the door which is always closed. We also have cats, which while I don't think she could eat, she could certainly kill them if she wanted to. There's also a crapload of possums in our area. I also have my ferrets in the garage, I'm not sure she would fit through the bars of the cage though.
So I guess my point is that she won't go bloody hungry, there's plenty of potential food to keep her occupied!
She's not a big girl, but is plenty big enough to fend for herself, I'm more worried about how cold it is down here, and/or the possibility of her coming into contact with neighbourhood dogs or shovels.
Unfortunately I had to go to work tonight, and because I didn't wake up til 7:30, I didn't have enough time to call in sick. I would have, but if I called in sick for a 9pm night shift at 7:30, it'd probably cost me my job, which I need to be able to afford to feed all my critters.
I looked for her, checked all the nooks and crannies I could find in that short amount of time, and have defrosted a rat and left her tank open, hopefully she'll realise that the grass is not in fact greener, but is colder, more dangerous and far less cushy than life in the box. I haven't put any flour out because our house is now stupidly open plan, so there's no way of blocking off the area from the dogs, cats or pig. Therefore, there'd be flour all over everything, not just on the floor, and it would all be gross and dogified, so would be useless for tracking snakes in.
Anyway, is there anything that I can do to kind of lure her back to her tank or general vicinity? The tank is open enough for her to go into if she does come back, but I don't know that she'd want to, considering all the animals in the vicinity as well as the fact that she left it in the first place.
The other thought that occurred to me is that she's buggered off to go look for some nookie. I know stuff all about breeding snakes, so is that a possibility at this time of year? She hasn't been cooled or anything, we've only had her for 6 months or so. If she is looking to pick up, then I can direct my search to include more of the areas around the other snake tanks as well.
Thanks everyone, and sorry I'm a terrible person.
