well, i had a close call tonight with my pastel Winston. i'm not sure for how long, which is almost the scariest part, but he escaped from his cage (-gasp-). my boyfriend says he remember thinking to himself a day or so ago that it didn't look like he was in there. so tonight, i went to check his water, and he was no where in there! the lid was still on, so he must have pushed it up and slid out. which means he's super strong cause i had a weight on it, lol. anyway; i was freaking out and couldn't find him anywhere. finally, i looked around the book case that his cage is on top of, and he had squeezed himself between the top of some books and the underside of the above shelf, directly under his heating pad. crazy stuff! i'm counting my lucky stars for even getting him back, considering how long he could have been out of the cage. thank you, whatever holy and mighty snake god there may be.