Yesterday I let Jeep run around in the southern end of the house all
day. I went to check on him and could not find him anywhere. After
looking in every single big and tiny place he could have hidden I was
at a loss. For sure I began to assume he got outside thru a door I
opened. But I knew I was very careful about that and there was no way
he could have done that. I had seen him in the computer room anyway
after those doors had been opened. But still no Jeep !

I heard some scratching in the master bedroom but could not find the
source of the scratching. I kept on searching in places do bizarre just
to be sure but no Jeep. Then all at once the scratching happened again
and it was coming from the bathroom. But no Jeep there either. Then I
spotted fur.

Jeep had got into the base board heat register, one about three feet
long, in the bathroom that carries the forced hot water baseboard heat.
He was totally trapped inside that! I could not believe he was in
there! Jeep is so big but he scrunched in and got there anyway. He was
hopelessly trapped in a scrunched up posture.

I tried to get him to back up but he couldn't so I had to rip the whole
cover off the wall to get him out. He was happy to get out and ran to
his 'spot' to give me a tootsie roll. Seems that need was all that
prompted him to scratch to get out. Typical guy priorities for sure. So
today I have to reassemble all that and then look at all the others in
the house to be sure none can be opened enough for him to get into. If
I had not searched so much and so long I never would have found him
till only a fuzzy skeleton would have been found years later.

Gordon and Jeep

Aarrow-Ranch Aviation
J. Gordon Bengtson CEO
CI-ASMEL
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[Posted in FML 7483]