I left Ekko in his cage this morning before I went to work. Tonight when I got home, I freaked out when I look at his cage and it was empty. I found Ekko perch on the headboard of my bed.

I am still wondering how he got out of his cage because all the possible exits are still close and latched. Does your ekkie pull this kind of houdini trick all the time?

Wow, that's bizarre! You might have to set up a surveillance camera to find out how he did that. Hmm.....no children in the house that might have accidentally liberated him? I'm sure you already checked to make sure there's no place on the cage where he could have squeezed out? Sometimes there's a spot where the bar spacing is wider, but I can't imagine it would be wide enough to let an ekkie through!

I have to lock Papi's cage up real nice and check and make sure everything is closed right because He's smart and will unlock a food dish from the outside hoping I wont notice and then escape thrugh it after I close him up and leave.

However, Every now and then I've been scatter brained enough to leave lock up the cage and realize after I came home that I locked Papi out of his cage.... lol...

thats probably what ekko did, figure out how to open one of the food dish from the inside and came out thru there. need to get locks tomorrow

Any slider doors not locked are escape hatches. The door falls back into place so you never know.

so far it has only happened once that Sophie escaped. But she was back in her cage when I got ome............ she got hungry you know........ but she left the door wide open and a couple of tell tale signs let me know where she had been.

Boca does that all the time. There are spring latches on her feeder dishes and three slide latches on the door but, she still manages to escape.

OMG! Your heart had to have been in your throat! I've often done a quick glance and not seen them because of a toy or something blocking my view at first and I panic until I see them. I can't imagine having to start searching the house. Hopefully she didn't get into too much trouble. I would imagine now that she's found a way out it will only be a matter of time before she does it again. Wouldn't you just love to have a camera set up, so you could see her in action, lol.

I'd bet that's what it was also! Whoever came up with that latch design, does not have a bird! I have screwed those in tight so that I have a hard time swinging those latches open.

That's funny to me! guess it wasn't to you!! Silly birdie!