Was able to stay home last night instead of my parent’s house, now that Mum is coming along well. Woke up after 5AM from neighbor noise, so checked on Sammy, who started to chew on her cage bars to come out. She’d tossed some litter out of the pan for the second night in a row. I figured that now that she’s better she doesn’t like any carefresh again, and will go back to just Feline Pine. Anyway, a bit of a mess, but not so bad it couldn’t wait till morning.

Sammy disagreed. I went back to bed, and to sleep, and the chewing had stopped.

I was awakened by a loud THUMP!

In my bedroom.

It’s off limits to her when I’m up, by way of the door being closed, but yesterday she caught the door open and went in to play a bit. She knows to leave so got her out fairly soon. At night when she’s in her house I leave it open to hear her, especially after the spay last week. But I’ve not been home much too. I woke up and there was a bunny staring at me, then running and thumping under my bed. She’d broken out!!!

Naturally I got up. Cleaned the cage. Made coffee. Grumbled. She played in the livingroom, has totally ignored her clean cage and breakfast, and taken a nap in her basket hidey hole. She’s still there.

So now I need a new way to keep that cage door closed. She’s learned that forceful chewing and standing against it will eventually push it open. I have twist ties for the moment, but can someone describe the dog clips you mention and where to get them? Will they keep a cage door closed or just attach things loosely like the litter pans? The cage doors loosened with a couple of years of use by Spockie, so this was inevitable. Sigh.