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Baby corn snake got out again.
I knocked the lid on Zim and Zotz's tank slightly to one side when I opened a drawer, and didn't notice it until later. By the time I noticed, Zim was long gone. Apparently Zim is the more adventurous one of the two (Zotz was contentedly sleeping under his coconut shell).
I waited quietly to see if I heard anything. I didn't. I asked Gamaliel to tell me where Zim was ("In Gamaliel's stomach" would have been my least favorite answer). Gamaliel was obviously aware of something unusual in the room, because his eyes were wide and dilated, and he was sniffing at things and acting like a lunatic (yes, I know, he always does that, but he was acting even weirder than he usually does).
He stalked all over the room, occasionally staring at a spot for a while with rapt attention. Whenever he did this, I'd check the area. At first, he didn't stay put for long, and would move on after a minute or so. Finally he settled on a point directly under the desk, and directed his gaze upward toward the back/inner side of the desk drawers. I looked under the desk, and up toward the back of the drawers, and saw ... absolutely nothing.
Gamaliel climbed on top of his litterbox with an insistent mew, and kept looking upward toward the back under there. This time he didn't move on - he had located what he was looking for. I let my hand follow his line of vision, until it came to rest on a little niche behind the drawer, under the desk -- and Zim. I quickly caught him before he could make his escape behind the drawers, and put him back in the tank. Thus was Invader Zim's plot foiled again.
I'd put off getting a tank with a better lid. I really do need to get one. Today. No more excuses.
I waited quietly to see if I heard anything. I didn't. I asked Gamaliel to tell me where Zim was ("In Gamaliel's stomach" would have been my least favorite answer). Gamaliel was obviously aware of something unusual in the room, because his eyes were wide and dilated, and he was sniffing at things and acting like a lunatic (yes, I know, he always does that, but he was acting even weirder than he usually does).
He stalked all over the room, occasionally staring at a spot for a while with rapt attention. Whenever he did this, I'd check the area. At first, he didn't stay put for long, and would move on after a minute or so. Finally he settled on a point directly under the desk, and directed his gaze upward toward the back/inner side of the desk drawers. I looked under the desk, and up toward the back of the drawers, and saw ... absolutely nothing.
Gamaliel climbed on top of his litterbox with an insistent mew, and kept looking upward toward the back under there. This time he didn't move on - he had located what he was looking for. I let my hand follow his line of vision, until it came to rest on a little niche behind the drawer, under the desk -- and Zim. I quickly caught him before he could make his escape behind the drawers, and put him back in the tank. Thus was Invader Zim's plot foiled again.
I'd put off getting a tank with a better lid. I really do need to get one. Today. No more excuses.
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