KatherineI
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Okay, before anyone freaks out over this, let me just say that it's not how we normally do things around here and we are usually very very careful and know how lucky we just were.
This is why I insist on clipping wings; It happened this afternoon. I had been folding laundry in the bedroom while both Sugar and Loki were free to roam around, go in and out of their cages as they pleased, playing on top, on the side or on their opened doors. Hubs had come in and taken Loki to give him some one-on-one, so I told him I was going to leave Sugar on her cage since he was still going to be in the room, while I went outside to meet our daughter as she got off the bus.
I closed the door behind me and saw my neighbor who I began chatting with. My daughter came over, gave me a kiss and promptly went inside as my neighbor and I continued our conversation. About five minutes later or so, my neighbor goes "Um, your bird's outside." To which I gave her a questioning look and turned to look at my house (which I was actually across the street from), saw that the front door had been left wide open, but didn't see anything as I looked up at our bedroom window thinking that the bird was at the screen. I looked at the door, then at the porch but didn't see anything. Then my neighbor goes, "She's in the front yard", so then I look further down and sure enough, there was Sugar, prancing in front of my rose bush! I called her name and immediately rushed over and picked her up. I looked at her and said "Yep, this is why we clip your wings darling!"
Apparently, after my daughter came home and left the front door open (honestly, she probably did it by accident, that door has to be pushed to latch correctly and it's been known to pop open), Hubs had put Loki away and gone to the bathroom, totally forgetting that I had left Sugar out, most likely because she was inside her cage when he left the room but her door was open. He said he heard her call, then some fluttering, then another call and didn't think anything of it because she often does that while hanging on the side of her cage. Then he heard scratching on the bathroom door but thought it was the dog. When he came out of the bathroom, Sugar was already in the front yard. He came running out, see's me with the bird and goes "Okay, you do have her!" and then I told him what happened. He apologized profusely and feels really bad.
We both made mistakes, and I'm thankful that it wasn't worse than her managing to get down the stairs and out the front door. She had been left alone, but could hear me talking outside, so she was trying to find her mama so she wouldn't be alone.
This is why I insist on clipping wings; It happened this afternoon. I had been folding laundry in the bedroom while both Sugar and Loki were free to roam around, go in and out of their cages as they pleased, playing on top, on the side or on their opened doors. Hubs had come in and taken Loki to give him some one-on-one, so I told him I was going to leave Sugar on her cage since he was still going to be in the room, while I went outside to meet our daughter as she got off the bus.
I closed the door behind me and saw my neighbor who I began chatting with. My daughter came over, gave me a kiss and promptly went inside as my neighbor and I continued our conversation. About five minutes later or so, my neighbor goes "Um, your bird's outside." To which I gave her a questioning look and turned to look at my house (which I was actually across the street from), saw that the front door had been left wide open, but didn't see anything as I looked up at our bedroom window thinking that the bird was at the screen. I looked at the door, then at the porch but didn't see anything. Then my neighbor goes, "She's in the front yard", so then I look further down and sure enough, there was Sugar, prancing in front of my rose bush! I called her name and immediately rushed over and picked her up. I looked at her and said "Yep, this is why we clip your wings darling!"
Apparently, after my daughter came home and left the front door open (honestly, she probably did it by accident, that door has to be pushed to latch correctly and it's been known to pop open), Hubs had put Loki away and gone to the bathroom, totally forgetting that I had left Sugar out, most likely because she was inside her cage when he left the room but her door was open. He said he heard her call, then some fluttering, then another call and didn't think anything of it because she often does that while hanging on the side of her cage. Then he heard scratching on the bathroom door but thought it was the dog. When he came out of the bathroom, Sugar was already in the front yard. He came running out, see's me with the bird and goes "Okay, you do have her!" and then I told him what happened. He apologized profusely and feels really bad.
We both made mistakes, and I'm thankful that it wasn't worse than her managing to get down the stairs and out the front door. She had been left alone, but could hear me talking outside, so she was trying to find her mama so she wouldn't be alone.
