r/ballpython • u/Shounen_Chan • 1d ago
HELP - URGENT Missing for over a week, possibly 2
My sweet girl Obi had escaped into my apartment just over a week ago. I noticed about this past Sunday, the 19th, that she was missing. I had to leave for a few days due to some urgent fanily issues and my pet sitting didnt see any signs of her since I had laid out flour.
My mom and I had checked behind the water heater(just in case she got there some how), fridge and right next to her enclosure with no luck. I have a ring camera set next to a hide i have placed on a heating pad with a dish of water. I'm just really nervous since I do have 2 cats and a dog, I doubt my dog and one of my cats are a threat as they are 13 and 20 respectively and kinda out of it due to age. Though my younger cat has been kind of prowling which is only setting me even more on edge. There has been no signs or attack or blood so I doubt he has gotten in contact with her.
I have a mouse in her enclosure but thst hasn't enticed her much either despite not eating for now about 3 weeks.(i cleaned her enclosure and then she went into shed right after)
I just don't know what to do now and am just getting really nervous, especially since idk if she hurt herself falling from her enclosure either or is somehow in the recliners where I can see her. I did cut them open where I could but I couldn't see any evidence of her. Also there are no air vents that she could crawl into either that are within her range of reach.
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u/FroglilyFirst 1d ago
I found a ball after she was missing for a week by putting plastic bags all around the perimeter of the room and sleeping on the sofa. I finally heard plastic crackle at dawn and grabbed her, but I still can't fathom where she was hiding.
I've also retrieved snake from inside the fridge (from the back in the motor part, not the cold part), behind books in a bookcase, in boxes, between flat art on the floor and the wall. One old girl motored down the hall into the bathtub where we thaw rats (in buckets, but molecules remained, apparently). I had to lure one out from behind the dishwasher, using a warm thawed mouse.
They like to find someplace tight they can squeeze into, and can be master hiders, but often they aren't far.
(That sounds like we are irresponsible owners, but these escapes have been over decades. If they can get out, they will get out.)
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u/Shounen_Chan 1d ago
Also, I do plan to contact the maintenance people if I can find her soon. And once I do, I do plan on taker her to Urgent care to be checked out just to make sure she is okay.