Ermintrude's prison break...

Ermintrude has learned to climb out of her cage (Spiderman's style), and this was what happened last night.

Alice went out for dinner and when she came back, she found Ermintrude missing. At first, everyone followed the poop poop trail, and traced her to the study, the book shelves, the piano and the living room. But there was no sign of the little sneaky fellow. Then Phil discovered that the perfume bottle under the bed was overturned, so we took out all the suitcases and stuffs under the bed. No sign of her either. We looked high and low and found nothing. Everyone was exhausted, freak boy was really worried.

Dishes of food and water were placed in the living room in the hope that the hungry little fellow would come out. At 2 am, nothing happened. Not a sound. Alice was really worried and slept on the sofa, just in case she heard the little one scratching.

In the morning, freak boy and Alice went to the supermarket and got a torch, and they searched the whole premise again. Nothing. Under exhaustion, Alice went to sleep and was woken up by a thumping sound. The usual noise that Ermintrude made when she's scratching her itches. Phil turned over the bed and nothing. We found those useless vacuum storage bags (with some shirts in them), still nothing. In the end, we were going to give up and resolved to waiting, and Alice was already crying. Phil looked through the old shirts, and then, 'There is a hedgehog here'.

Phil saved the day...Ermintrude was a bit shaken, and looked dehydrated. Now she is sleeping happily on Alice's lap, after a big meal of pancake. Alice is happy.