Snake vs. cage

[beetiger]

One of the baby snakes has escaped. I can't figure out how, as the cage looked pretty securely fastened to me, even when I got there. But there's no snake in it. Frantic searching all over the place has turned up nothing, so far. It's pretty likely that it's taken up residence in my heating system or somewhere else impossible, and unlikely that I'll be able to find it before the cat does. THere's the back part of a shed on the guest bed, and the missing snake still needed to shed in the back a bit, so I'm pretty convinced that at some point, it was on the bed. But that could have been hours, even days ago. I don't recall checking on it for sure since Monday night.