Mannequin on the Moon by Ian Boothby and Pia Guerra for April 17, 2023

Tunnel vision.

Which is right next to Albuquerque.

Then he needs a compass.

This is really a horror story. He has to get out before he grows too big for the cheap tubing.

I bought one of those habitats and the little beasts chewed their way out of it within a week, so I had to go and buy a non-killing mousetrap. Baited it with peanut butter and caught them both within a day, and then I got a terrarium with a metal mesh roof instead.

I had a Habitrail where the main enclosure was an old steam train engine, and the hamster wheel was the engine drive wheel and it was connected to a little bell that ding-a-linged every time the hamster would run. The hamster would run about five miles a night. I rue the day I purchased that got dang contraption, and after a few sleepless nights I ripped that little bell off and soundly smashed it.

The best-laid paths of rodents and men gang oft agley.