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| baldyman666 |
Posted - 04/04/2010 : 00:59:01
Hi , this is baldyman, posted a few times here in the past. just need to share my grief with fellow humans that have a love for royals. Our 2 year old royal 'stardust' has escaped her viv in the last 48 hours. it was left unlocked after an evening water change and not noticed until the next day... and the window was open!
Im writing here really because i needed to share my pain with people that may understand this awful feeling.
i'm beside myself after looking under every nook and cranny in the house (i think i know she went out the window, i have checked every hotspot around the house) but we are rural living around woods , trees , and countryside)
The missus is too gutted to approach, she looked after stardust, fed her , cleaned her viv , daily watered and misted whilst i was away in afghanistan for 8 months last year , and made a connection with her, a companion if you will, whilst i was away.
sorry for the depressing news, but i had to share, thanks to all that listen 
We have to tell the kids tommorow.....................
STARDUST : BORN : 10 JUL 2008 : MIA
'we will remember you'
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| GirlHarry |
Posted - 23/04/2010 : 12:44:51
Very very sorry to hear this. :( |
| STICKS |
Posted - 22/04/2010 : 18:57:15
sorry for your loss. |
| Kazerella |
Posted - 22/04/2010 : 15:38:03
That's awful Baldyman - I'm really thinking about you at this moment. Bet it was quite harrowing  After recently losing a snake myself I appreciate how upsetting a death can be.
I believe the oven is a common hide away for escaped snakes- my cousin found her missing royal inside hers a few years ago. Luckily hers escaped with only minor burns.
R.I.P Stardust
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| MissCat |
Posted - 18/04/2010 : 16:42:24
Oh god, that's horrible :( So sorry to hear that x |
| AddicksGlenn |
Posted - 18/04/2010 : 08:59:46
Devastating m8, Sorry to hear your sad news. |
| spor |
Posted - 17/04/2010 : 21:04:05
thoughts are with you. so sorry for you all. |
| reikiangel |
Posted - 17/04/2010 : 19:55:20
im so sorry |
| milvstrana |
Posted - 17/04/2010 : 17:29:30
Aww dude that's terrible to hear :-( I'm so sorry for your loss.
R.I.P. Stardust |
| mischang |
Posted - 17/04/2010 : 15:56:33
our though are with and your children am so sorry to hear your bad news !! x x |
| Lettsy1 |
Posted - 17/04/2010 : 15:19:38
omg so sorry hun. x |
| Welly |
Posted - 17/04/2010 : 11:53:16
:( Really sorry to hear that fella. |
| baldyman666 |
Posted - 17/04/2010 : 11:09:57
CLOSURE
I regret to say we have found her.
i'm not going into details because you are all royal lovers and i find it so distressing that i find this hard to write, fingers trembling .
but i needed to post because lessons can be learnt from all situations .
IF anyone in the uk (or colder climate countrys) loses their snake and has a downstairs oven/cooker then please please please ... (even if it looks impossible for a snake of ANY size to get in).. please please get a screwdriver and get to the back of the oven and completely disassemble it. Ours had just one tiny hole in it .... that was enough to devastate a family.
thank you for all your support through this
rip stardust , god rest your soul. |
| mischang |
Posted - 06/04/2010 : 20:22:30
no news is good news !! i hope x x |
| Welly |
Posted - 06/04/2010 : 14:20:58
when my mbk got out he was only 18 inches long and the width of a skinny pencil. He was found behind the tv curled around the amp power cable. He'll turn up. Do you have any partitions hiding hot pipes close by? |
| chris100575 |
Posted - 06/04/2010 : 12:29:55
I did exactly the same with my royal once and she turned up under a bookcase about five feet from her viv. Hope you find her. |
| Robert |
Posted - 05/04/2010 : 22:32:39
I am sure she will be close and in the house where it is warm, fingers crossed for you |
| dazb |
Posted - 05/04/2010 : 18:17:28
Good luck mate... I remeber reading somewhere that most snakes are found within 10ft of there viv's.
Both my escapees were...  |
| spor |
Posted - 05/04/2010 : 01:39:51
wishing you the best of luck with your search. |
| baldyman666 |
Posted - 04/04/2010 : 23:36:41
i have put the vivs down on the floor both downstairs and up,(lamps on,heater mats on, glass open, with water just outside the entrance to vivs
outside where i think she went , along the wall in the grass (as from what i have heard if she is outside she won't be far from the house) i have put on a flat piece of wood a heater mat and one of her hides with scent all over it. Just inside the viv ON the heater mat is a rat nicley thawing , hopefully now a bit smelly)
there is an enormous amount of cats out there though - really worried
we have upturned the house , ripped out all insides of sofas, turned the boiler inside out and have checked under the fridge and oven (we checked before using the oven for tonights meal, that would have been unthinkable otherwise)
i believe it was i that left the key and lock off, she was able to slide the glass open herself - cant stop thinking about it. The guilt is terrible, but im a big boy and will deal with it.
thanx for all the updates,
am going to try the flour too, we have had her for two years now and i have studied how she moves around the house when let out of the viv. she hugs all the walls so am going to flour the kitchen.
we have a huge heat signal in the plasma tv in the front room, were hoping that she is going to go for that some night, we have a milksnake that seems to watch t.v at night , but i know that it is the heat that he can see.
i fell that we are at this point,
1)if she is outside , she is royally screwed
2)if she is in the house , we have a great chance of finding her one day , there is a million heat sources around the house
3)if she went out but found a way back in again then we have a good chance too
how hard is it to find a 4ft snake AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh
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| mischang |
Posted - 04/04/2010 : 18:54:12
oh i dont know if u have thought of this but if i was you just for a few days or till you cal the search off i would at night when u go sleep but kitty in a basket on top of a wardrobe or some thing and have the dog in with you reason been you dont want to end up with a half eaten snake or a straggled kitty etc... if she is stressed she may be very scared and strike at some thing which in turn could stsrt off a rolling snowball effect ............ check behind t.v , fridge and in toy boxes !! or under the bath . |
