I was sitting in my room reading when suddenly I hear this rustling in my brother's room next door. It gets louder and I realize it sounds like someone was in there opening and closing the window blinds. I knew my Dad was in his room and my Mom was cooking dinner so I assumed it was my brother... Until I heard him say something on the other side of the house.
I thought it must be a big bug then and I forgot about it.
About half an hour later my brother goes to play with his skink, Astro, and discovers that Astro has mysteriously vanished. The lid was still closed, but we noticed a small hole in the mesh on one side that appeared to be too small for Astro. We were panicking and searching his room all over on the floor, since his door was closed and Astro can't squeeze under a door.
Suddenly we hear a hiss, coming from above us. Confused we turn back toward Astro's cage. When nothing happened we went back to the floor. But then we heard the same hiss again. Standing up we were very still and waiting for Astro to hiss again. Sure enough we heard it, and some rummaging, coming from the window. We looked closed and found a skink tail sticking out of the blinds. Attached to the tail on the window ledge was a very angry Astro.
We took her down and were relieved to find her alright, but we still couldn't figure out how she got there. Then I remembered all the noise I heard and realized she had climbed out of her cage, onto the top screen and up farther still into the window. She climbed a good two feet! Since then we've secured the screen and have been more alert to strange noises, just in case Astro tries something like that again.
I need a picture of Tarz and TQ together. It'd be amazing ^.^
