Actually, no -- and there is a non-zero possibility that he DID mean to do that. See, it was, like, two in the morning, and it was only on the third iteration that we figured out what the sound was, and watched iteration three and four. He was sticking his head in the box, getting stuck, then backing up until he found a corner of the bed or nightstand or something, which he'd use to pry the box off. Then he'd, again, make an attempt to access the inside of the box.
He'd managed to drop one of his toy mousies in there.
But the thing is -- over the past several days, he's been deliberately putting toy mousies in holes, and in narrow spaces, and so forth, and working out strategies to try to get them out again. I have this creepy feeling that he's training himself in case another mouse gets in -- he seems to be proactively trying to figure out places mice might try to hide, and work out ways to access them.
So there is a non-zero possibility that he was deliberately accepting the risk of getting his head stuck in an active attempt to work out the best way of getting things out of the box WITHOUT getting his head stuck.
It's just as ridiculous, of course -- but he might have been doing it because of his brain rather than despite it.
Doing stupid and ridiculous things in order to learn and figure out new things? It doesn't make him any less silly -- but it would be a particularly geek kind of silly.
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Date: 2011-05-30 12:19 am (UTC)He'd managed to drop one of his toy mousies in there.
But the thing is -- over the past several days, he's been deliberately putting toy mousies in holes, and in narrow spaces, and so forth, and working out strategies to try to get them out again. I have this creepy feeling that he's training himself in case another mouse gets in -- he seems to be proactively trying to figure out places mice might try to hide, and work out ways to access them.
So there is a non-zero possibility that he was deliberately accepting the risk of getting his head stuck in an active attempt to work out the best way of getting things out of the box WITHOUT getting his head stuck.
It's just as ridiculous, of course -- but he might have been doing it because of his brain rather than despite it.
Doing stupid and ridiculous things in order to learn and figure out new things? It doesn't make him any less silly -- but it would be a particularly geek kind of silly.