6ftpythonsgirl
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Now on APS there are always threads Asking about how to find an Escaped Reptile.
I no i have been one of these unfortunates. However i found my lost girl. 3 times. And once for my old snake.
Now thats 4 lost snakes that i have found again. And it just occured to me that i am either completely incompotent as a keeper
or i am the luckiest person in the world and i thought i would share the happy news that i once again found my beloved snake and give hope to those that are still looking.
My 1st time (everyone loves a first time story) was about 2 years ago. We had had princess (prob not the best name for a male snake, and possibly the reason he tried to leave us) for only a few months he was a 6ft Coastal and he was mean he had this look in his eye when we went into his tank to clean or change water.... Well any way princess was in a 4ft glass tank with glass lid and due to the heat in the tank and cold out side the tank would get all humid and misty so of an afternoon my partner josh would turn the lids and basicly leave the tank open... As you can guess the lids were forgotten and when i was in the shower the next morning (All t you scary movies fans settle no snake lunched itself at me!!!) Josh calmly sick his head around the door and tells me not to be alarmed but there was a 6ft pythons somewhere in the house, i calmly replied well you had better lock the birds Outside then dear...
After a good half hour of pulling the house apart i walked past the tank and saw the box i kept the old news papers and stuff in for cleaning the tank out and i lifted the lid and yes even though i had a gut feeling he was there i screamed like a girl... Since then my dad wont sleep in my house
The second time was my fault i didn't shut the tank on Our new girl Athena's(MD) Tank and we spent the day at work fretting and the afternoon rythmaticly pulling the house apart and of course she was in the last place we looked which was in the spare room in the built in under a pile of handbags i never use
Now this amazed me that we found her since Athena was only 4 months old and well small she could curl up into a tiny ball and get into places only god would no about!!! but we found her under the Denim Bag my aunt bought me that i never used... Ever.
The third time we found her before we realised she was even lost...See i have a retarded Olive lorikeet called ... you guessed it Olive. and olive spends a lot of time screeching like something is out to get her... but never at night so at 3 am when she started screeming and Josh rolled over Hiding his head and mumbling about feeding her to the snakes when they were bigger i being totally devoted to the crazy thing jumped out of bed to talk her down like you would a junkie when the lights came on and i saw Athena poised to strike again i thought Josh can really tell the future.. However Athena was no where close enough in size to something that could eat poor old Olive so i told her she and josh would have to wait a few more years and unwound her from the Bird cage and put her back in her tank
And for a few weeks being the Army Folk we are one of us would shut out morning and night Kapooka style... My Reptiles are scure SIR...... if only i hadn't gotten bored with that little joke?
And my 4th time and possibly not my last.... was today.... yesterday when i got home josh had done a few choirs for me before leaving on the HMAS TaBroken (again) one of these was putting the new water bowl and features in Athena and diesel Our new Coastal's Tank. So i looked in and liked the new changes and did my thing till later that night i will explain 2 things now one is that i am fairly blind up close with out my glasses and fairly vague so i never noticed the 3 mm gap in the sliding glass door.... the second is that the snake tanks are in my bedroom.
So laying in bed last night looking at my snakes more about and watching tv in bed i thought they are so beautiful and i might get Athena out, then the timer kicked in lights went out and i thought eh maybe tomorrow and went to sleep.
This morning i woke up and faced my tank i saw diesel was still out on his new ladder, and praising myself for buying it for him i went to the bathroom to do what all pregnant women do in the first few months and that was hang my head over the toilet bowl and pray that i would die fast and painlessly. And then half way through i had a brain wave.... Why wasn't Athena in her usual spot this morning? and i rushed back to see where she was and noticed the tank was open...Again
So being really god at the whole missing snake thing i calmly went to the bath room to Brush my teeth and come up with a plan of attack.. So while brushing my teeth i walked around my house thinking if i was Athena were would i be?
Bedroom still? no i sleep with the dogs in there so she would prob move away from them...
I thought i will start in the spare room this time were i found her last time and work my way around the house and throw out some extra Cr@p while im at it. i went to the Bathroom and while drying my face i saw the washing basket and thought Hhhmmm.... and moving it aside and opening the door i saw the most beautiful sight... Athena all curled up behind the door so i picked her up and put her back in he nice warm tank and she went right back to her usual spot for the day.
And once again all is well in my world...
So if anyone else has some amazing Lost and Found stories please share and if you have lost a snake Dont give up hope
I no i have been one of these unfortunates. However i found my lost girl. 3 times. And once for my old snake.
Now thats 4 lost snakes that i have found again. And it just occured to me that i am either completely incompotent as a keeper
or i am the luckiest person in the world and i thought i would share the happy news that i once again found my beloved snake and give hope to those that are still looking.My 1st time (everyone loves a first time story) was about 2 years ago. We had had princess (prob not the best name for a male snake, and possibly the reason he tried to leave us) for only a few months he was a 6ft Coastal and he was mean he had this look in his eye when we went into his tank to clean or change water.... Well any way princess was in a 4ft glass tank with glass lid and due to the heat in the tank and cold out side the tank would get all humid and misty so of an afternoon my partner josh would turn the lids and basicly leave the tank open... As you can guess the lids were forgotten and when i was in the shower the next morning (All t you scary movies fans settle no snake lunched itself at me!!!) Josh calmly sick his head around the door and tells me not to be alarmed but there was a 6ft pythons somewhere in the house, i calmly replied well you had better lock the birds Outside then dear...
After a good half hour of pulling the house apart i walked past the tank and saw the box i kept the old news papers and stuff in for cleaning the tank out and i lifted the lid and yes even though i had a gut feeling he was there i screamed like a girl... Since then my dad wont sleep in my house
The second time was my fault i didn't shut the tank on Our new girl Athena's(MD) Tank and we spent the day at work fretting and the afternoon rythmaticly pulling the house apart and of course she was in the last place we looked which was in the spare room in the built in under a pile of handbags i never use
Now this amazed me that we found her since Athena was only 4 months old and well small she could curl up into a tiny ball and get into places only god would no about!!! but we found her under the Denim Bag my aunt bought me that i never used... Ever.The third time we found her before we realised she was even lost...See i have a retarded Olive lorikeet called ... you guessed it Olive. and olive spends a lot of time screeching like something is out to get her... but never at night so at 3 am when she started screeming and Josh rolled over Hiding his head and mumbling about feeding her to the snakes when they were bigger i being totally devoted to the crazy thing jumped out of bed to talk her down like you would a junkie when the lights came on and i saw Athena poised to strike again i thought Josh can really tell the future.. However Athena was no where close enough in size to something that could eat poor old Olive so i told her she and josh would have to wait a few more years and unwound her from the Bird cage and put her back in her tank
And for a few weeks being the Army Folk we are one of us would shut out morning and night Kapooka style... My Reptiles are scure SIR...... if only i hadn't gotten bored with that little joke?
And my 4th time and possibly not my last.... was today.... yesterday when i got home josh had done a few choirs for me before leaving on the HMAS TaBroken (again) one of these was putting the new water bowl and features in Athena and diesel Our new Coastal's Tank. So i looked in and liked the new changes and did my thing till later that night i will explain 2 things now one is that i am fairly blind up close with out my glasses and fairly vague so i never noticed the 3 mm gap in the sliding glass door.... the second is that the snake tanks are in my bedroom.
So laying in bed last night looking at my snakes more about and watching tv in bed i thought they are so beautiful and i might get Athena out, then the timer kicked in lights went out and i thought eh maybe tomorrow and went to sleep.
This morning i woke up and faced my tank i saw diesel was still out on his new ladder, and praising myself for buying it for him i went to the bathroom to do what all pregnant women do in the first few months and that was hang my head over the toilet bowl and pray that i would die fast and painlessly. And then half way through i had a brain wave.... Why wasn't Athena in her usual spot this morning? and i rushed back to see where she was and noticed the tank was open...Again
So being really god at the whole missing snake thing i calmly went to the bath room to Brush my teeth and come up with a plan of attack.. So while brushing my teeth i walked around my house thinking if i was Athena were would i be?
Bedroom still? no i sleep with the dogs in there so she would prob move away from them...
I thought i will start in the spare room this time were i found her last time and work my way around the house and throw out some extra Cr@p while im at it. i went to the Bathroom and while drying my face i saw the washing basket and thought Hhhmmm.... and moving it aside and opening the door i saw the most beautiful sight... Athena all curled up behind the door so i picked her up and put her back in he nice warm tank and she went right back to her usual spot for the day.
And once again all is well in my world...
So if anyone else has some amazing Lost and Found stories please share and if you have lost a snake Dont give up hope
