Happened last night, I was running on fumes after only sleeping 3 hours the previous night. I didn’t fully close Nobara’s rack bin and she pushed herself out escaping into my animal room… thankfully its shut off from the rest of the house!
Tore through the entire room looking for her wondering how such an obviously large BP could hide away from me in an open room with barely any other furniture besides a dresser repurposed into a table, and then found her under my ATB’s enclosure…
She really wedged herself under there, its surprising that I was able to get her out without much complication
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I’m glad that she was quickly found and okay!
I dunno what the heck happened but I had 2 a couple months ago. Which now makes 3 escapes in 25 years of noodle keeping for me. I think it’s more of a ‘when’ and not ‘if’ it happens.
One was a huge mistake on my part. Trying a new setup for my hatchlings this year and one was just small enough to wiggle out. One of the kittens here found her and gave a couple of bites, but thankfully she’s slowly healing well. Eventually I may need to move my hatchling setup to where the adults are.
The other was my older female retic, Bao finding just the right angle to push out of her enclosure and find a midnight snack. I keep my adult and juvie snakes and feeder rodents in a closed room so no threat to the cats/dog and vice versa there… But she decided to open up one of the feeder rat tubs and help herself.
The situation with Bao is pretty funny in hindsight… And it proves how smart Retics are because she’s the same one who unscrewed a vent in an enclosure before. I’ve been trying to find a lock for her enclosure but the glass panes are so close together that the 4 different locks we’ve tried have just been too thick. I may have to go just the little bent stick of metal route. 
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These things happen to all of us.
Sometimes we’re tired and forget to latch or push the tub back in fully. Or…
After a long day, a friday in August, I smelled that I needed to clean one of my big fem bloods. I hauled her out, bathed her and wrapped her in a towel then placed her on my bed. Clean bin, new substrate, clean rags, scrubbed and refilled water. Put everything in order and replaced the tub in the rack. Saturday morning check I notice she hasn’t been in her water dish. Sunday, still hasn’t been in the water. Pulled the bin to check and instantly noticed it is too light weight. Uh oh!
I noticed my pillow was hyperventilating. Looking close I see a set of heat pits and a snoot. Reaching to lift the pillow, she shot out, mouth open.
Luckily the temp under my pillow was @24°c, I checked, and the door stays closed when I’m not there.
Yes, she spent two nights in my bed, a king, and yes, I slept with her. There’s no way that she would climb back onto the bed so I assume she just got comfortable and decided to settle in.
Not an escape but sometimes we all miss things.
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I guess I did forget to clarify that she is okay! She certainly wasn’t happy that I pulled her out of her newfound hiding spot and Kyrre (my ATB) wasn’t either because he had to be taken out of his enclosure so it could be moved without freaking him out.
I’m just glad that the rodent rack that shares the same room is secure! 
Might’ve ended up finding a very fat and happy snake if that weren’t the case lol…
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