Superfun Aven Adventure

Well, Aven had an adventure at an indeterminate time last night- I missed it, but I imagine he had fun.

Basically, when I filled up his water before going to bed, I forgot to close the lid of his tank. Sometime during the night he noticed it and got out... I can't say when, and I hope he didn't poop somewhere (doesn't smell like he did, and it probably would if he had... :/). I noticed in the morning when I woke up, looked over, and saw his tank empty. It took me a little longer to notice the open lid but, you know... I did. xD

All this was very bad, because my room is entirely nooks and crannies and he's a snake. He could get anywhere. Luckily he's too big now to go through the slats in Mufasa's cage, so he couldn't go in and eat him (although I suppose that would have made him easy to find... if Aven had eaten a gerbil, he definitely wouldn't be getting back out of Mufasa's cage xD). So I looked around in the area near his tank, did some headstands to peer under the bed and bedstand and stuff and it was fun. :P Didn't see him.

I figured he must be cold, so maybe I could just hang his light from the doorknob and then hopefully he'd go to the corner to get warm. Or maybe, even simpler, I could put his feeding tank out and he would just go in there in hopes of getting a mouse. I didn't feed him this weekend- I decided as of Saturday I want to feed him on Mondays instead, so that he's off limits when I have less time, so maybe he'd get tricked.

Well, what do you know? He was already sitting in the feeding tank, waiting for a mouse.

He didn't get it, instead he just got put back in his tank, but he'll get one tomorrow.

But... wow. What a relief. My door was open and everything, he could have been anywhere in the house and impossibly hard to find... but there he was, just waiting for me to get up and feed him. xD I love Aven. Such a sweetheart, even if he does give me a scare now and then.