Lost Chameleon in house!

chrisandpugs

chrisandpugs

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Hi everybody!
Right now, I'm a little bit frantic....We allow our 2 year old Veiled to free roam in our house for 2-3 hours daily since he is big enough and he's easy to find and he's very hard for him to squeeze into small crevices..etc. due to his casque height and overall body size.
It's been one day already and I am searched high and low thruoughout our house!! No front or back outdoor doors are open to allow him to get outside! Even the door leading out to our garage is also closed.

Has anybody lost their Chameleon in the house and have found it over a time period of time??
I'm not so worried about him getting depleted because he's not eating now....He's slightly obese so hopefully that will help him survive....I'm just so nervous regarding hydration....not getting any water now. We live in Southern CA . We do set our air-conditioner to turn off at 78 degrees but it still gets quite warm inside our house.

So, I continue looking and searching everywhere....It's like he vanished in thin air!! Any encouragement or tips would be greatly appreciated!

Christine
 
i lost mine on my balcony and i found him making a beeline to the tallest tree out here.
go to the highest points and by windows. thats where my veiled loves to go.
 
look behind curtains, couch, mini blinds, desks, tv because its warm. try putting a house plant in there or a house tree in the middle of the room his cage is in. if he sees it he will most likely go to that tree and climb in it and to the middle or top. either a scheffelera tree or benjimine ficus.
 
Jeremy l said:
look behind curtains, couch, mini blinds, desks, tv because its warm. try putting a house plant in there or a house tree in the middle of the room his cage is in. if he sees it he will most likely go to that tree and climb in it and to the middle or top. either a scheffelera tree or benjimine ficus.
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Good advice there!!! this has always worked for me!!:)
 
Always look behind the TV lol or computers or places with wires. They will also go up blinds and sit up high or climb up a window that is open and sit on the screen.
 
Hermie used to work his way out of his cage on a daily basis. I used to PANIC like crazy because I couldn't find him ... would tare my apartment apart looking for him (and then worry that I was inadvertently trapping him some place...). So finally I just decided to stop frantic looking but ...

1. leave his cage open and lights on. One time, two days later, herm found his way back up into his cage and when i got up the next morning he was sitting on a branch (and probably laughing at me as I'd been literally hysterical looking for him the night before...)

2. Hopefully you don't have cats or dogs? this can pose a problem...

3. Check lamps, cords, (esp. attached to the TV), curtains, book shelves ... all those sorts of places. Clothes in a closet work nicely too for climbing.

In the past Herm has always shown himself (usually chilling on a lamp shade or on a cord) within 48 hours.

jamie
 
I found my cham this morning hanging from the curtains. I sat the room with no noise at all and just listened. I could hear her little nails scraping and followed the noise.
 
They can hide in the weirdist of places, think like a cham and as others hav said b4 behind curtains, behind boxes, look up high etc.

i let my cham wander around my room the other day, n lost him for a couple of hours, eventually found him hiding in my wardrobe! the door had been ever so slightly ajar and he'd manage to push himself though, climb up my clothes and decided he was goin bed in there coz it was nice n warm n dark. lol cheeky cham!
 
At least he is inside. I have lost one outside and it took me 2 days to find. They just sit and watch laughing there ass off hahahaha. Youll find him. Think of it as a trek through the forest in search of the great chameleon. Have fun. After I found mine and the stress was over I thought it was kinda fun searching. She was over 50 yards away in a HUGE tree.
 
Look in the most obvious places, I left my cage zipper open, and found out Louie wasnt in there, I looked everywhere in my room,to find him napping on my pillow!:p
 
I had some young veileds that weren't exactly enclosed. I had a med. sized ficus with the pot part in a large rubbermaid container. As these chams got a bit older I found that they started to disappear. The first time I found one halfway across my apartment on the outside of another cham enclosure. Another time there were 4 of them missing ... 3 on various parts of my vertical blinds and one on the cable cord coming out the back of my TV.

So into a larger mesh enclosure they went. I'm sure they had fun but endless searching wasn't fun for me!! ;)

Dyesub Dave. :D
 
WHHOOOPPPSS !! Thanks Kenya!

Well Ciafardo ... your psychic powers may indeed still be working fine!! LOL

Dyesub Dave. :D
 
check EVERYTHING that has a power cord from the device to the wall(they love to climb on cords). this will sound crazy, but check behind your fridge and washer/dryer (found mine behind both before :confused: ...he seems to like the radiator on the back of the fridge) also check stuff like laundry bins, rubbermaid type bins, and the trash cans (sometimes they find their way to the top edge of these things, then they fall in and cant get back out), an finally anywhere that you think of and say to yourself "no way he could be there, its impossible"....where there's a cham, there's a way!!
 
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