Monster Safari

There is a monster loose in my home. I thought it was contained but there has been a break out. The sock monster that previously resided in my dryer has freed itself from its restraints and is running amok in my home. It has a definite preference for my children's socks. Prior to this unfortunate incident, the monster contented itself with gobbling the occasional mate to a pair of socks during the drying cycle. Now, however, my children are running out of clean socks while none of the discarded ones are making it to the laundry hamper.

My children assure me they have no idea how their socks are mysteriously disappearing from the hamper, where of course they are certain beyond any doubt that that is the last place they had put them. That leaves only one reasonable explanation. The sock monster is on the loose.