Oh, happy day!

[Dragoon]

I got my parahybana back safe and sound! YAHOOO!

I opened a cupboard above where I keep my slings and saw this huge black spider clinging to the door! Never was a girl so delighted to be surprised this way!! Next was a feeling of panic, because if it fell...

He managed to keep his foothold long enough for me to find a delicup. I feel bad because I never did search UP from the countertop, only down. Because the Shultz book said terrestrial T's will head downwards...stupid me, and a lesson learned (I hope). Well, he's back, and in a new enclosure, and suddenly has a name.
I do not want all my T's to have names, I prefer the scientific of what it IS, but I blurted out 'you little scaliwag!' when I saw him, and it has stuck in my head...darn.

Now where on earth did that word come from, out of my brain??

Eesh, he did not go far in the two weeks he has been gone. And I wish I had searched better, since I could easily have squished him by shoving something in the cupboard. That would not have been a pleasant feeling at all!
Scali hasn't eaten yet, but he took to the underside of the clay dish I provided right away, and is accliming...
D.

[Pixie]

So happy that you've found your T!

Only recently have I started to understand the panic in losing a T, it took living though the experience myself, lol!

I had gotten a few a. avic slings and decided to set some up in a communal enclosure. 5 slings were kept together in one small kritter keeper. I had placed a lining of screen mesh between the container and lid to prevent the little buggers from escaping.

With the excitement of these new arrivals, I kept checking in on them very often during the first day. In the evening, as I was peeking on them again, I found it curious that I couldn't spot even one of them.

That was because all 5 of the buggers had escaped!!!! I managed to find 4 of them in a few minutes just a few feet above in my bookcase, but the last one was M.I.A. A day or so later, I was talking to my bf when out of the corner of my eye, I saw something on the wall. Sure enough, it was the last missing sling!

I can't believe how lucky I was! I had 2 leopard gecko enclosures without tops in that same bookcase along with 20+ Ts. If any sling had walked into any of those, I'm sure he would have been munched!

What a relief!!!

I'm glad that your bugger is back home safe and sound!

Pixie

[Yve]

thats good to hear....scallywag is a great name for it!...it is funny the words that come out of your mouth when you're excited or ticked off!lol

[skinheaddave]

Originally posted by Dragoon
I never did search UP from the countertop, only down. Because the Shultz book said terrestrial T's will head downwards...

It is a good idea to read the books. It is a better idea never to forget that the Ts haven't read them, though.

Cheers,
Dave