Mrs Featherton
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Welp, many of you remember Murphy’s adventure when he escaped out the door. (He was outside for 24 heartbreaking hours before he finally flew back onto Momma’s head!)
Well as traumatic as that adventure was for him (he stayed inside his cage VOLUNTARILY for nearly 2 days after that!), he now seems DETERMINED to go back out into the big wide world!
It’s like he stalks the door just waiting to zoom out!
My house is small. It’s a tiny cape with an open kitchen/dining/livingroom on the first floor, and 2 beds and bath upstairs. Murphy’s cage is in the livingroom so he can, of course, be with his peeps.
I can’t put him alone in an upstairs room - what kind of life is that?
And though we are EXTREMELY cautious and aware of Murphy’s location anytime we open the door, you all know how fast a determined lovie can be! He’s like a guided missile!
So my question is - to clip or not to clip?
Because it’s not a question of IF he gets out again, but WHEN. We’ve had 2 near escapes in the past week!!!
We are in the country surrounded by tall trees, owls, hawks, racoons and other predators, so we simply CAN’T let him get out and up into the top of a tree again.
Any and all constructive advice welcome. And don’t suggest we catch him and put him in his cage any time someone opens the door because that’s not practical. Most of the time it’s just me here alone with him all day and that’s pretty managable, but now it’s summer and the grandkids are always visiting and staying over and going in and out and we are spending more time outside ourselves....
Murphy has a big cage - should I keep him in it for the bulk of the afternoon? He’ll HATE that and yell to come out all day...
Ugh.... what to do?
Well as traumatic as that adventure was for him (he stayed inside his cage VOLUNTARILY for nearly 2 days after that!), he now seems DETERMINED to go back out into the big wide world!
It’s like he stalks the door just waiting to zoom out!
My house is small. It’s a tiny cape with an open kitchen/dining/livingroom on the first floor, and 2 beds and bath upstairs. Murphy’s cage is in the livingroom so he can, of course, be with his peeps.
I can’t put him alone in an upstairs room - what kind of life is that?
And though we are EXTREMELY cautious and aware of Murphy’s location anytime we open the door, you all know how fast a determined lovie can be! He’s like a guided missile!
So my question is - to clip or not to clip?
Because it’s not a question of IF he gets out again, but WHEN. We’ve had 2 near escapes in the past week!!!
We are in the country surrounded by tall trees, owls, hawks, racoons and other predators, so we simply CAN’T let him get out and up into the top of a tree again.
Any and all constructive advice welcome. And don’t suggest we catch him and put him in his cage any time someone opens the door because that’s not practical. Most of the time it’s just me here alone with him all day and that’s pretty managable, but now it’s summer and the grandkids are always visiting and staying over and going in and out and we are spending more time outside ourselves....
Murphy has a big cage - should I keep him in it for the bulk of the afternoon? He’ll HATE that and yell to come out all day...
Ugh.... what to do?