
After that, continue your search one room at a time. Once snakes find a good hiding spot, they rarely go far. Start looking around where you last saw them. Most missing snakes are found by diligent owners who roll up their sleeves and conduct a top-to-bottom search, room by room. Secure them when you’re not home, and especially at night when the snake is most likely to be out and about. Step Two: Secure Your Petsįree-roaming pets (cats, dogs, birds, etc.) can pose significant threat to a lost snake, particularly with cats.


Myths about child-eating pythons and the like…you know how it goes. As worried as you might be for your pet’s welfare, non-reptile people tend to panic when there’s a snake on the loose. This is another reason why it’s important to secure your snakes. Give your neighbors a picture of the snake and your contact information, and explain to them in clear terms why they are NOT in danger.
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Worst case scenario: If it’s warm outside and you don’t have good seals on your windows or doors, the snake could have escaped outside. However, they will suffer from the cold, lack of humidity, and dehydration, so it is important to keep looking. Even if it takes a week to find him/her, snakes can stay alive for quite a while outside of their tank (varying from species to species, of course).

Upon realizing that your snake has gone AWOL, don’t freak out. Coupled with ambush hunting instincts honed from thousands of years of evolution, they really have a knack for hide n’ go seek - and for driving their doting humans crazy. Snakes are master escape artists they are smooth, slender, flexible, strong, and smarter than we give them credit for (generally).
