So I learned a scary lesson and unfortunately I was in too much of a hurry that I did not take photos to accompany this story, but here it goes...

I go into Columbus' room today and notice that his cage is completely trashed! Like bowls turned over, hides turned over - all his paper towels russled into a corner, I think "Man you had a party in here last night, so I start cleaning things up and I lift his hide he is in to take him out while I rearrange his cage and notice he has a 1 1/2 inch long strip of foil tape attached to his neck, face and eye!!!!!!

I begin to freak out - because I see that he has been trying to get it off and is about to rip his eye out!! So I email JGlass38 (Jamie - THANK YOU) ask him what to do, while I am soaking him in a warm bowl of water trying to get it off and NOTHING! - Oh yea I did GET PEED ALL OVER!!!!

But the tape was not budging! So I call my vet I had all picked out for an event like this and ofcourse it is that vets day off!!!! So I start to panic and call (BP's Rocks - Mike THANK YOU) cuz he lives here in Denver and ask him where I need to go since my vet is off! In the meantime I find Arapahoe Vet in Boulder will take him immediately - so I grab him rush down there and WALLAAAA they get it off in about 2 minutes with mineral oil and NO HARM TO columbus BREATH.

So I was using foil tape to tape down his probe and he wedged his head under it for some reason- but little did I know I should tape his probe to the outside of his new AP cage In his sweater box I had it on the outside, but with his new AP cage I did not think it work on the outside the way I needed it to due to the thickness of the cage!! Anyways! FOIL TAPE IS OUT!!!

Gotta tell ya - made me feel so helpless not knowing how to get the tape off him without hurting him!!! WHEEWWWW