How To Easily Find A Lost ESCAPED Pet Snake!

here we share loads of tips about finding an escaped snake. weather it's a ball python or a corn snake that's escaped there enclosure, these tips are bound to help you find your escaped pet snake.

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[melissasawyer]

Do NOT give up hope! Our corn snake Mangle went missing on September 17, 2022 and we just found her today. May 24th, 2023. She was under the air conditioner unit in our basement! So happy she is home!

[jasonepstein]

Thank you!!
I found my snake while watching this video. The bit about sitting and listening really helped. It was just a minute after you said it that I heard a noise in the other room, and there she was!! I would have completely ignored the noise otherwise. We don’t tend to think about the noise our snakes can cause.

[desdy]

Thank you! My ball python escaped last night. I literally found him 3 mins ago

[Dovietail]

If you're really stumped, it's easy in Winter. Just set up a warm spot underneath some tight stuff near a wall. That snake will show up under that stuff on top of that warm spot pretty darned quick! I put a hat on a heating pad and a blankey on the hat. Snake curled up in the hat under the blankey.

[jgscatsandthings]

I had years ago a Cali King snake escape. It went behind a gas fire, that we didn't use. Lured it with food, it grabbed it, then I held the snake a bit further down the body, and held on. Didn't pull, just hung on ( about 20 mins, might have been longer). Eventually the snake let go of what its tail had been holding onto. So got a hungry snake back ( Turned out my ex hadn't closed the lid properly, reason for escape) I no longer have the snake or the ex.... It was a good 18 years ago lol.

[sherimoen]

We were moving things around and didn't realoze that he got away. We did find him a couple years later outside. He went wild so we left him outside. We live way out in the sticks neighbors far away. He seemed happier outside then in an aquarium. He was a corn snake. When we found him he was really long and slim like they are suposed to be, and so beautiful.

[dreampupz_bandoggesxexotic]

This man is a Saint!!!! Pure genius dude 😭 moral of the story use your phone camera turn on video use flash light and zoom scan under your furniture or somewhere warm, really slowly you will find snake in after 2-3 video I promise! Snake found within a hour DONT GIVE UP HOPE YOUR BABY IS STILL CLOSE!

[ermineambleton]

Hi❤ can i just say your video was brilliant and helped so much, my daughter lost her ball python two days ago i watched your video today and have found her safe and aound she is now back in the tank, thank you so much for your help and advice, very valuable❤

[rainbowcrewmagic]

Thank you after telling me the think like my spider bull python I found him in seconds after an hour of searching 😂 and looking under things. Much appreciated 👍

[rainbowllama]

Would love a similar video but for geckos/beardies. Not sure if a lot of the advice would be the same as for snakes but would still be interested in a separate video. Love the channel - have learned so much in the year I've owned my leopard gecko.

[chelseahilbun]

I've had Klaus (BP) for 5 years now, he was 6 weeks when I got him. He has gotten out 3 times in total. First time, he went down his rack, across a small room, and up an entertainment center to hide inside my PRINTER!
Second, different house, he was up inside my top load washer. It's open underneath, he was curled near the drum at the top.
Third, NOW. 48 hours. Still MIA

[Huxlithur]

Great Video Again and yes if there is any corn snake owners my step brother had his corn snake escape and didn't realise until he went to the toilet if you hang your towels on the back of your bathroom door and have any towels in there check them as his snake was hiding in there he went for dry his hands and the snake lashed out at him lol might not help you but if your stuck check your towels

[natasha-zaychidester]

I lost a young royal python once. It had found a hole in a window screen and escaped out the flat. The screams of a little girl finding it alerted me to its location. I went and retrieved and brought it back inside.

[joelphillips]

I live in Queensland, Australia. I have a coastal carpet python who I’ve only had for about a month. Built him a bio active enclosure. Finally got the misting system perfect last night…. Woke up around 2am and looked over to see him winding his way through the plants, fell back asleep and woke up at 7am….. no snake in the tank. Opened the doors, stuck my head in and looked through everything…. Could not find him at all…. Anywhere. Spent the day watching videos about what I could do to find him. And throughout the day implemented the tips others had mentioned. I searched my room (using the phone video light) checked the room below mine… no sign of him. Decided to place a pinky rat under the heat lamp in the enclosure and left the doors open, put a piece of driftwood against the cabinet so he could climb back up into the tank. placed a heat pad in the room below mine. Put 2 boxes in each room with a little hole cut in each as a hiding spot. Placed plastic bags around objects and walls… placed aluminium foil around the floor as well.

Went up to swap the pinky rat over for a fresh one as it was now 7:30pm…. Opened my door and was shining my flashlight around the floor trying to find him. Got to the tank and shone the torch where the rat was sitting…. And there is the python chilling where the rat was. No rat in sight.

I am so damn happy! 12 hours and he is back in the tank. He got Out because one of the roof screens wasn’t clicked down properly. He pushed the corner of the screen, 2 lamps and a small fan just enough to create a gap in the corner of the screen and got out.

[Jules_]

Thanks to your video i found my juvenile banana Royal .He escaped while i was out and my hubby and kids were in bed when he did it .I tore the room apart, panicking because our window is open, we have 3 dogs and cats .He had been missing 48hrs when i watched this and was sure some harm had come to him .But when you said think like a snake i thought hang on he is on a chest of drawers and we leave one slightly open as we have 4 royals and keep feeding tongs etc in it .We had checked the drawers but i suddenly looked at it and thought where would i hide if i were him, pulled out the bottom drawer and there he was in the big gap between drawer and floor .Swear he was mum put me back in my viv .He is such a lovely natured snake that we rehomed from a rescue along with two of our others.I mistakenly forgot to lock his viv remembered and thought he is to small to push the glass if it been one our big adult royals yes, how wrong i was .Won't make that mistake again .

[ScottsInverts]

Great video as allways, I found my snake beheind a zipper

[DoorsToHideBehind]

Lost my baby corn snake, it's the first reptile I had bought online and had shipped to me. She was still quite young and eating pinky mice. This was in February it's April now. I turned off the heat in my apt and set a lamp with hides on the floor. Good point in saying if you don't smell rotten animal it's still alive also going into a brumation state. Both of those things I hadn't thought about.. I'm still holding out hope I probably will wait over a year before thinking of getting another corn snake. I keep looking online and then feeling guilty just replacing her. If she's still alive somewhere. Realistically she is as she can't slide under my front door. So, I guess I'll update this comment in a year or so if I ever found her or not.

[hkreptiles]

i went to the doncaster reptile shows in 2021 i did not see you by the way it was amazing lol are you going to be in the show in april

[max.bean]

My ball python went missing yesterday when I was at work, she is a super fire so white and the same color as my walls. Hopefully the warm spot works, she is also like 20in long

[kyrawakefield]

We live in half of a duplex home, Pickles was missing for 7-8 days before found. Our neighbors found our ball python in their kitchen. Pure luck! We did not think to let them know we lost our snake, thankfully they thought to ask. Think of anywhere! No clue how she got over there, just thankful she turned up.