I had an extremely scary accident happen yesterday! My mom and kids thought they would help me out by cleaning Yoshi's cage while I was working. He's quite used to the process, but not when it isn't me messing with his stuff. Usually he's content to play on his gym, supervised, while I clean. But my kids are too young to understand the rules about him when he's out, so they opened the door a crack, Yoshi panics that someone has taken his cage, avd out the door he went! There's a "bug screen" over the door for his safety, but he must have slipped through it while the kids opened the door.
He has some flight feather regrowth going on, and the slight breeze carried him up into a 30 foot tree two houses down from us. He's only a year old, and his experiences outside are limited. We were unable to get him inside before dark, despite the gracious people willing to lose a finger to help us. He had to spend the night outside, all by himself.
Today we were able to get him down to lower branches where I was able to climb up to him and he came right to me. He's very tired, thirsty, and hungry but otherwise in great health. He's now the talk of the vet's office!
Now I'm terrified of what could have happened to him had he not come down within reach.
Would recall training help in this situation? How would I start that? Should I expose him to more things outside? (He's harness trained already) I just really need some advise so I'm better prepared for this sort of thing in the future.
He has some flight feather regrowth going on, and the slight breeze carried him up into a 30 foot tree two houses down from us. He's only a year old, and his experiences outside are limited. We were unable to get him inside before dark, despite the gracious people willing to lose a finger to help us. He had to spend the night outside, all by himself.
Today we were able to get him down to lower branches where I was able to climb up to him and he came right to me. He's very tired, thirsty, and hungry but otherwise in great health. He's now the talk of the vet's office!
Now I'm terrified of what could have happened to him had he not come down within reach.
Would recall training help in this situation? How would I start that? Should I expose him to more things outside? (He's harness trained already) I just really need some advise so I'm better prepared for this sort of thing in the future.