My python got loose in my house 2 weeks ago...I don't know how to find him.?

Question

He is a small python...only 3 feet and he has managed to evade me for too long. It is driving me nuts. I can't figure out how I cannot find him. I have seached everywhere. EVERYWHERE! My wife is going to kill my if I don't find him. I need someone with some experience who knows some tips that have worked before hopefully. Please Help.

Answer 1

Try putting a mouse in the middle of a room and stay there for the night. If he doesn't come than call a pest controll expert to help you. If that still doesn't help you than you better try looking outside or give up, because if he has been gone for 2 weeks than he will be gone forever. Unless he has been in the house for the past 2 weeks (which is not likely). Hope you find him!

Answer 2

My daughter's 3 foot long ball python got loose a few weeks ago. Her room is very warm, but the snake only crawled about three feet and was found curled up under a child-size recliner in the corner - I assume he liked the dark. He didn't opt to go under the door into the attic where it was cooler, neither did he go to her bathroom where there was water. He sought the first small dark space he found nearest his tank. Good luck!

Answer 3

If you live where the weather is cold he will go into hibernation and you may not find him until the spring when it warms up . I would put a heat lamp down close to the floor and a water bowl out for him . Crank up the heat in the house . Look under the refrigerator , under the dish washer , dryer , furnace , water tank , near any heat source .If you still can't find him look on top of every cabinet and shelf you have in your home . Check with your neighbors to see if he has escaped your house and went to theirs . Put a heavy weight on your toilet lid so he can not go down the toilet .

Answer 4

my friend had this happen with her small female python,the snake expert my friend talked to told us a snake will never be too far from a water source,so we started looking in the bathroom area and kitchen we were getting desperate and looking in the most ridiculous places but believe it or not,we found her curled up inside the back of the electric can opener that sits just beside the kitchen sink

Answer 5

To be honest, I'd contact a pest control expert. They are the experts at getting alive and dead animals out of walls and such, and if they go around and check for you, in places you may not be able too, they might find it. Or contact your local zoo, and see if they have any suggestions for you, they probably lose a python or two from time to time. GOOD LUCK!

Answer 6

iv lost a few snakes and the best advise iv had is to put a few carrier bags around the edges of the room as snakes like to travel along side things and then you should hear the rustling also if your wife can put up with it leave a mouse in a corner someware and a bowl of water if it has the mouse you know its still there and you may find it in the water bowl if you sneak up in the dark. good luck and be patiant i lost one of my corn snakes for two months

Answer 7

turn down your heat,not too cold,mid to high 50's and put a heat source (low watt light bulb or electric heater on low) in the middle of one or a few rooms, a little bait can't hurt either(mouse in an open topped box) he should out of necessity come out for the heat.
Good Luck

Answer 8

if you live in a cooler climate, turn your heater way down and place an electric blanket or spaceheater set on low in the middle of a room. you should find him the next morning, curled up close to the heat. other than that, bait a "trap" with a mouse that he can't get to. he'll get hungry eventually.

Answer 9

I hate snakes with a passion. I knew of a man who moved into a new apartment, and found a python curled up in his toilet tank. If I were your wife, I'd be packing and moving, and leave you to find the snake.

Answer 10

Sit in the middle of the floor and make a noise like an injured mouse.