Carib's Not-So-Great Escape

This is the story of Carib’s not-so-great escape. On a warm, sunny day, when her human is cleaning her room, Carib pushes through a loose screen and heads for the trees of Terra Forest. Iguanas love to climb to the highest place they can find and that is exactly where we find our green girl. She is basking in the warm sunshine of Terra, but soon the cold night will arrive and she will be unable to move. If she doesn’t find her way back to her human home, she will freeze and starve as winter approaches.

Fortunately for Carib, Elizabeth the opossum comes to her rescue. Elizabeth lives close to Carib’s human house and she has seen this before. She knows that if Carib stays in the top of the tree, the lizard will die from the cold. Being quite the skilled climber, Elizabeth moves up to the top of the tree and convinces Carib to come down just before the sun starts to drop behind the horizon. Our green girl climbs back through the screen and up to the top of her human house tree.

You might think that a lizard who escapes will be just fine in the wild, but this is not the case. If it is warm and rainy, Carib might be perfectly fine in the Land of Terra, but as soon as cold weather arrives, she will be in serious trouble. If her human cannot find her, Elizabeth will again be her only hope for survival. Perhaps we should listen to the opossums who care for us …