Those little birds are quite smart.  Chester sounds like My M&M.  Everytime I come home he darts out the door and goes down the hall.
Poor little Barney.  I am glad they are all right.  I love Bassets Hounds Doxhounds and the other one like the basset but I cannot think of the name.  to Tired.

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> this morning we discovered that Chester, our parrot, had picked his lock, it
> was half broken any way, and got out of his cage.  He was still on top of
> the cage, picking at the pictures behind his cage, and trying to pull them
> off the wall.  I fixed the lock but then later, my son came over, and put a
> chain around the door and the bars with a clip on it.  The clip was from an
> old dog's chain.  Yep, Chester figured it out, too, tonight and got down on
> the floor and started running around.  One of the dogs caught Chester in her
> mouth but didn't bite down.  Gretchen pulled Chester free and we got him
> back in his cage.  Yes, he is fine.  We have a large thicker chain around
> the door and bars now holding the gate shut with a padlock that takes a key
> to unlock.  We will be ordering a new lock from the California manufacturer
> who builds the cage we use tomorrow.
>
> Additionally, Sandy thought tonight that one of the basset hounds had
> climbed up on a chair, pushed his head through a large hole in the nylon
> screen, and jumped out.  Gretchen and I went running outside calling his
> name over and over again but couldn't find him.  Sandy came out into the
> front yard and began calling his name and just then, I got an idea.  I went
> into the house and into our front bedroom.  This is now a spare room because
> Gretchen and the boys live in our basement apartment.  We keep our dog cages
> in this room for feeding times and when we have church and the like.  I
> closed the door to listen because I thought Barney may have gotten into this
> room by accident.  The dogs often get into this room when someone goes in
> there.  We store paper goods in the closet of that bedroom.  I listened.
> There he was!  Somehow, Sandy had gotten mixed up, apparently, after feeding
> the dogs and put Barney into his kennel.  Boy, was he happy when I opened it
> up and let him out.  Barney is a very friendly basset hound and he had heard
> us yelling for him and he always comes but when you are in a cage, it is a
> little difficult to get out of on your own.  Unless, of course, you are
> Chester.  Thank you Jesus for keeping Chester and Barney safe for us today.
>
> Phil.
>
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