I fucked up. I was in a lot of pain last night and on my meds and drifting off to sleep when I remembered I hadn’t yet done the nightly misting on Mango, my crested gecko’s enclosure. So I shuffled in to the office/ancillary reptile room, and took care of Mango, then realized Miss Honey and Duncan had both shed so I took their enclosures down from the shelf and cleaned Miss Honey’s and she had some stuck shed on her tail, so I was taking care of that, and started in on cleaning Duncan’s enclosure, which took some doing because he managed to smear his shit all over the side, and while I’m doing that he leaps out of the enclosure, I catch him, he bites me, and leaps again from my hands and slithers away.
I did my best to look for him but this room is a messy storage room and there is so much room for a baby corn snake to hide. I’m not giving up but I had to go to bed because at that point my meds were really kicking in hard and I needed to lie down. I hope I find him safely. I hope he stays in this room and doesn’t leave so the cats don’t get him. I left a bowl of water out on the floor and I’m going to try to leave a pinkie out tomorrow night if I don’t find him before then, but these guys are so small and so good at hiding and I feel awful and overwhelmed.
