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Not all that major of an issue at this point, since he has been located and is safe and sound. Just thought I would throw this out for anyone else that may have one get loose.
I was out of town for a few days and left my son to take care of everything. When I got home one of my males was on "Slither About" (snake version of "Walk About") I didn't care how it happened, I was just bummed he was missing. I wasn't really worried because I know him fairly well and just had a feeling I was going to find him. So I started to put together a snake trap. While I did that I was looking around to see if I might spot him and figure out where he had gotten to.
It was clear he had been everywhere. My son said he had heard a couple odd noises but didn't think that it might be a loose critter. So I started thinking about how I might be able to rig something like a snake alarm up. This is what I came up with and think it is a pretty good idea. I took empty soda cans and stacked them three and four high all over the place. Thinking that if he even bumped it a little, it would send the entire stack crashing to the ground, giving me an audible and visual clue that he was moving around.
So after I had about 100 pop cans stacked all over the basement and a rat all thawed for the snake trap, I went back to trying to find him. It seemed to me the floor would be too cool, so started looking up in the warmer areas and where I had found other cold blooded creatures in the past.
To make a long story short, (I know, too late), by using my wife's hand mirror to look up on top of the warm air duct, I found him on top of the duct right over the furnace. He had been gone for about 3 days, but seemed to be content, and none the worse for wear. After several minutes of my tapping his tail, he started to come out. At that point I knew I had him, and it would be just a matter of time before he was back where he was supposed to be.
I was out of town for a few days and left my son to take care of everything. When I got home one of my males was on "Slither About" (snake version of "Walk About") I didn't care how it happened, I was just bummed he was missing. I wasn't really worried because I know him fairly well and just had a feeling I was going to find him. So I started to put together a snake trap. While I did that I was looking around to see if I might spot him and figure out where he had gotten to.
It was clear he had been everywhere. My son said he had heard a couple odd noises but didn't think that it might be a loose critter. So I started thinking about how I might be able to rig something like a snake alarm up. This is what I came up with and think it is a pretty good idea. I took empty soda cans and stacked them three and four high all over the place. Thinking that if he even bumped it a little, it would send the entire stack crashing to the ground, giving me an audible and visual clue that he was moving around.
So after I had about 100 pop cans stacked all over the basement and a rat all thawed for the snake trap, I went back to trying to find him. It seemed to me the floor would be too cool, so started looking up in the warmer areas and where I had found other cold blooded creatures in the past.
To make a long story short, (I know, too late), by using my wife's hand mirror to look up on top of the warm air duct, I found him on top of the duct right over the furnace. He had been gone for about 3 days, but seemed to be content, and none the worse for wear. After several minutes of my tapping his tail, he started to come out. At that point I knew I had him, and it would be just a matter of time before he was back where he was supposed to be.
