Critters Big Adventure

Hello, my name is Critter. I am a rodent.
I am fortunate enough to have been adopted by a family that are the
world's biggest sucker for animals. They typically take in rescue
dogs, guinea pigs and now me.

Since my real mom, Rachel, is away at college and can't have me there,
I am being raised by my grandparents. Its great here and they feed me
a lot and don't bug me as much as the college boys do. Each evening,
my grandmother takes me into the bathroom to hang out and get some
exercise. We chinchillas have big hind legs and love to jump so I do
my best to entertain her and jump up and down on the wall and do my
tricks.

A couple of nights ago, I decided to try something new and poke my
nose into the bathroom closet where I promptly found a really neat
hole to crawl into. Well, since that was so fun, I decided to keep
going and run along under the bathtub and see what was along there.
This was all great fun until I got to a hole in the floor and since I
haven't learned the difference yet between horizontal and vertical, I
jumped into that. Pretty much, I ended up one story lower than I
started and in a dark place somewhere in a wall. So, yeah, I'm just
sitting there and sitting and sitting some more. I'm getting pretty
bored but then I heard my grandma screaming for me and shining a
flashlight in the hole which was very cool and made me laugh.

Soon I hear grandpa with the electric saw cutting a hole in the closet
wall and then it got even better when he cut another one in the
kitchen ceiling. I was amused by them calling my name and shining the
flashlights in the holes and really wish I could have gotten to the
food that they left me inside of the hole in the ceiling. So then the
fun stopped and they went to bed and I just sat there. All that
night, the next day, the next evening, again that night. They kept
calling me but I couldn't get to them.

So......I decided to start chewing my way out and found this cool
thing that they plug their microwave into and started chewing around
that. Finally, the next morning, I got my chance as grandpa was
stumbling around getting his morning coffee, I decided to go for broke
and start making a lot of noise and it worked! Grandpa kept looking
around but was having trouble focusing but eventually looked into the
outlet with one eye open and the other squinted. So, I did the same
thing back to him and boy was he surprised. He yelled "Critter!" and
yanked the drywall away from the outlet and I jumped out! Yippee!
Finally free! Now we had to go tell grandma. When he put me up to
her face in the bed where she was sleeping, I couldn't believe anyone
could sit up and scream so fast. I guess she was just excited to have
me back.

So.....it was a great adventure but I'm glad to be back in my cage
with all my treats. And I'm thinking that I won't be going on any
adventures again soon. zzzzzzzzzzz.