Day: April 22, 2009

Remember Stumpy/Houdini/Pickle? She has sadly buggered off. How she managed it, I don’t know, but she has escaped from a completely enclosed and seemingly secure cage. Twice.

The first time was when we first decided to keep her and Katy went to Scottsdale to buy a cage. After setting everything up on the kitchen table, we put her in and shortly thereafter noticed that she was sitting in our fruit bowl grooming herself while sitting on an apple. After a bit of fun trying to catch her and put BenBen to bed at the same time, we borrowed a glass aquarium and put her in there until she got big enough to stay in the cage without being able to slip through the bars.

Last weekend, we put her in the cage again – mistakenly thinking that since she’d doubled in size, the bars would be able to keep her in. We were wrong. We hadn’t seen her moving around the cage for a few days yesterday so we decided to have a closer look. She was nowhere to be found :( Somehow she managed to squeeze through the bars and climb (or fall) down the wall shelf where the cage was. The cats haven’t been going batshit so she’s either hiding/dead somewhere well out of the way or she’s managed to make it back outside.

Godspeed to you Houdini, wherever you are, and watch out for the cats.