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Re: potential emergency
since we are in a sharing mood.
back in 94, I had a pair trans pecos rats in the top slot of a rack.
we had a very daring cat who, while I was out of the room for FIVE whole minutes managed to get to the top and fanagle her claw around the lip of the tub and pull it out enough to get the rest of her paw between it, and push it open even more. (I know this from watching her try to do the same thing on the cage next to it only a few days later while in the room)
The only picture in my mind is the snake freaked, and bolted from the cage, and fell the 6ft to the floor, and the cat made short work of it.
I was crushed, for the snake, and me for having even an ounce of trust that the cat couldn't get itself into that much trouble that quickly.
Thinking that I had the Cat's M.O. I fancied a "brace" to keep the cage from opening without turning it first.
Well, what I didn't account for was the back was completely open.
some time later, I went to work, and my girlfriends mom left the door to the room open , and the cat did the same thing to the other trans pecos rat but in reverse on the other side of the rack.
needless to say, that hasn't happened again
in 14 years (knocks on wood)
feels good to get that off my chest...
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