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I am new to this site however I would appreciate your help. I live in upstate New York and my ball python has gotten out. I have looked for 3 days allover. It is very cold outside as winter is here. I just do not know what to do. He is 3 feet long. Do I need to worry about my dogs? Also under the house I have packages of d-con for the mice. If he eats one which has died from the d-con will it kill him. Please email me at [email protected]

Any info. would be great. :lol01:
 
first off i dont think you will get him back if he left the house and he wont eat the d con the dogs might kill him if you have not found him it is most likely died sorry for you loose
 
Don't write him off just yet...

I had a corn snake get out of a tank in my room and found him about 9 months later.
Look for him at night, He will be traveling at night. Walk thru your house late at night after all the lights have been turned off and things have been quiet for a while with a flash light. His eyes will reflect the light and be easier to see. Look under furniture, look for him in warm places like under the fridge.

Start in the room he escaped in and follow the walls around the room into closets, under furniture, into boxes any where he could fit, even places that you think he wouldn't.

As far as the decon goes thats a risk, if he gets a rat that has been poisoned I am pretty sure it will kill him. And he's got a 50/50 chance that the dogs find him.

Don't give up, just keep looking for him, snakes can survive a long time in a house.

Good Luck, hope you find him.
Becky
 
Also check under the hot water heater. Mine got loose twice and that's where I found him both times, three rooms from where he got loose.
And yes, your dogs will most likely kill him if they find him first. My cats got the lid off one of my baby BP tanks and killed it and were pretty pleased at what they had done.

Karen
 
Thanks for the help

Just want to say thanks for the help. I guess I can just be optamistic. :spinner03
 
Get a heating pad (10 bucks at almost any drug store) and a cardboard box that you can make a hide out of. I also put a live weanling rat in a tupperware bowl, with air holes in the lid.

I plugged the heating pad in and placed it on the floor along the baseboard. I put the cardbaord box hide on top of the heating pad and put the tupperware bowl with the rat in the box.

I did this for two nights in the room he escaped from. He never came. So I put the set-up in the adjoining room and found him in the box curled up the next morning.

Hope this helps.
 
If the snake is in your house he will be at the warmest and darkest spots. One of the number one places would be your fegerator or a heat vent. Also he will hid in dark places like under the sofa, dressers, etc.. But if he made it out which I wouldn't think he would go he's dead it's to cold for a ball to live. Also like hockeymom said he will travel at night and the dogs will kill him. Hope this helps Tommy D.
 
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