[Alphys blushes, because she's been caught in the act, and just... places the wiggling nug on the floor. It proceeds to sniff the ground a bit and then duck back around her tail.]

Kind of. They started f-following me, and I sort of uh, felt bad just leaving them out there with all the demons and everything. But they're not very f-fast and they always want to be underfoot.

[Which makes it damn hard to run from threats and all that.]

It kind of looks like you're about to use that fox as a t-travel pillow, or something. Did it start following you, too?