As many of you know, we spent the weekend at a friends house for the Thanksgiving holiday. We returned home yesterday evening to find a missing Ming Ming. Even though her wheel was taped to the side of her cage so it wouldn't fall out, she ran it into the ground and the tape security failed. She (again) lept from the 4 foot dresser and was wandering around. We were gone from Wednesday night to Sunday night, and we have no idea when she got out. We turned the entire condo upside down looking for her. Finally, we decided to just sit and listen to see if she would come out of hiding, and if not, pronounce her dead.
I fell asleep at around 10:00 while listening for her in the bedroom. Trisha had a migraine all day yesterday and couldn't sleep until the afternoon, so she wasn't as tired. She was watching TV and looking through her coupons when we heard some scratching. It was at about 12:40 AM and it was loud enough to wake me up.
We were happy to find Ming Ming sitting on my shoes again.
I looked very closely in our closet earlier, and she wasn't there, but apparently, when she wants to be found, that's where she emerges. She had lost quite a bit of weight over the weekend. So we double taped the wheel back on and made sure she had lots of water and food. She drank and drank and drank when she first got back in her cage. We're glad that we found her!
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