Escape

[Catherine]

Ah yes the dreaded snake out event.  How well I know it.

I am glad you got him back so quickly. Snakes have been known to be out for months. Your search methods were excellent. It figures that he would be inside something. They like crawling into things.

A good lid is essential. That is the one thing you do need to spend money on. I have bricks on top of some of my tanks. For their size bricks are heavy.  Having a door like that is great. It is so much easier to get your snake out.  Not all my tank lids have doors. I wish they did.

Congratulations on your quick thinking. If you leave him out too long he could find a way outside.  I had a baby Pine Snake turn up in my neighbours basement 6 months later. I have never mentioned the fact that there were actually two pine snakes out. We never found the other baby and it has been two years. It got outside and I am sure the winter was too much for it.