BOLO

 A couple young humans (neither of them were humans I'm responsible for) stopped by our program this afternoon while we were setting things up.

"Can you hang up this missing poster?"

"Sure."

They handed the poster to William and skipped off down the hall.
We spent the next 10 minutes or so trying to figure out what the critter was while we finished setting up.

William thought it was an alligator.

I thought at first maybe it was a cat, but then changed my guess to skunk because of what looks like a scent cloud behind it.

We had to wait for more information. 
Waited until 3:30 when the older kids arrived post after-school enrichment classes.

Turns out Coco is a large lizard who lives in a locked tank on the 2nd floor of the school. The class pet.

Coco mysteriously disappeared from that locked tank sometime on Thursday night as he wasn't in the tank on Friday morning.

There was no school on Friday, and we heard that all the teachers and school staff who were there for the 'teacher work day' spent part of their day looking for Coco.

The kids were worried because the tank has a heat lamp and it's been a little chilly lately.
"What if he freezes?"

Then, one of the kids running past our program area after the classes were over this afternoon stopped to tell the kids at the art table, "They found Coco!!!"

There was a big cheer. 
The girl who had told us Coco was found said that Coco was found on a school bus.
Which of course means someone deliberately took Coco out of the tank and tried to take him home.

A crime.
Not sure if the abduction or the artist's rendering was the bigger crime.

::snort:::