Saw this story on here about a snake escaping so I thought I would share some stories about the red-tailed boa that I had.
She was beautiful and her name was Sabrina. I got her when she was 7 feet long and by the time I had to give her to a reptile farm she got to 11 feet. I built her a cage but when I built it, the lid wasn't all that secure and she got out a lot. I didn't have any small animals like a cat or a small dog that she could kill and she didn't scare me one bit so I really never worried about her getting out of her cage. (In hindsight I should have) Well you haven't lived until you have woken up at 4am to an eight foot snake in your bed. That's the only time she has ever scared me.
Once I did have a roommate for a time while I had this snake. My roommate was not a lover of snakes but it didn't bother her to live with one. Except the morning she got out of bed and there was an eight foot snake in the middle of her room when she turned on the lights. I was awakened to the most horrifying scream I had ever heard! Seriously, I thought the house was on fire. She really got mad at me when I came running full speed into the room and she was stark naked. (I am a guy) She got even madder at me when I couldn't stop laughing about it.
And there was the time when I had my boyfriend at the time sleep over and he left the bedroom window open in a ground floor apartment. In the morning she was gone out the window. I looked in every bush for a square mile for 2 days and couldn't find her anywhere. It was a pretty well developed neighborhood and this was a 9 foot boa constrictor! I was seriously worried that she was going to be found by someone who knew nothing about snakes and was scared enough to kill her. She was as sweet tempered as any kitten you could ever have. Seriously friends of mine would let their small children play with her. After over a week I was totally upset and resigned to the fact that my Sabrina was gone forever. I came home from work one day and the computer monitor that sat in front of the living room window was knocked to the floor. I thought "what the heck happened to the computer?" I looked around for a minute and noticed a red tail sticking out from behind the entertainment center. Out of twenty ground floor apartments in my building, Sabrina had picked my apartment to come home to and in a different window than the one she crawled out of! She was absolutely filthy but wasn't injured. I had her happily for 4 more years. I cleaned her up and put her back in her cage. I knew in the wild naturalists have relocated boas miles away from their territories only to have them come back to the place from which they were captured but to pick THAT window out of the 40 that she could have chosen amazed me! And it was the other window a week after she escaped! That was when I fixed the lid on the cage and Sabrina's adventures were over.
Moral of these stories; Don't actually let your pets escape, fix the darn lid!
I miss her a lot!
She was beautiful and her name was Sabrina. I got her when she was 7 feet long and by the time I had to give her to a reptile farm she got to 11 feet. I built her a cage but when I built it, the lid wasn't all that secure and she got out a lot. I didn't have any small animals like a cat or a small dog that she could kill and she didn't scare me one bit so I really never worried about her getting out of her cage. (In hindsight I should have) Well you haven't lived until you have woken up at 4am to an eight foot snake in your bed. That's the only time she has ever scared me.
Once I did have a roommate for a time while I had this snake. My roommate was not a lover of snakes but it didn't bother her to live with one. Except the morning she got out of bed and there was an eight foot snake in the middle of her room when she turned on the lights. I was awakened to the most horrifying scream I had ever heard! Seriously, I thought the house was on fire. She really got mad at me when I came running full speed into the room and she was stark naked. (I am a guy) She got even madder at me when I couldn't stop laughing about it.
And there was the time when I had my boyfriend at the time sleep over and he left the bedroom window open in a ground floor apartment. In the morning she was gone out the window. I looked in every bush for a square mile for 2 days and couldn't find her anywhere. It was a pretty well developed neighborhood and this was a 9 foot boa constrictor! I was seriously worried that she was going to be found by someone who knew nothing about snakes and was scared enough to kill her. She was as sweet tempered as any kitten you could ever have. Seriously friends of mine would let their small children play with her. After over a week I was totally upset and resigned to the fact that my Sabrina was gone forever. I came home from work one day and the computer monitor that sat in front of the living room window was knocked to the floor. I thought "what the heck happened to the computer?" I looked around for a minute and noticed a red tail sticking out from behind the entertainment center. Out of twenty ground floor apartments in my building, Sabrina had picked my apartment to come home to and in a different window than the one she crawled out of! She was absolutely filthy but wasn't injured. I had her happily for 4 more years. I cleaned her up and put her back in her cage. I knew in the wild naturalists have relocated boas miles away from their territories only to have them come back to the place from which they were captured but to pick THAT window out of the 40 that she could have chosen amazed me! And it was the other window a week after she escaped! That was when I fixed the lid on the cage and Sabrina's adventures were over.
Moral of these stories; Don't actually let your pets escape, fix the darn lid!
I miss her a lot!
