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[canesisters]

Everyone has done it at least once.
I went off one morning and left the run door unlocked!!! There is no reason why that door stayed closed all day, but it did. My dogs would've made short work of any bird that strayed very far from the pen.
I've gotten in the habit of looking over my shoulder at the 2 locks as I walk away. Even when I go out and it's pitch dark, I still look back - can't see a thing, but look anyway LOL.
As far as the pop door goes, I'm with the auto door crew. LOVE mine and depend on it to keep my girls safe. (but check it regularly too).

 

[digitS']

Here is another olde person caution: can't look back. Look back = fall forward. Kinda a clock change thing, eh? No, it is because of what the doctors call an "awkward gait." It is a lot more than that but look over the shoulder, fall down!

Life is like that. Want to get something done? Want to stay on top of the game and be productive? Can't look back.

Funny how I have to leave the looking back to the young people . . . Oh, looking back just at the fun things then, okay? No regrets.

Steve

 

[so lucky]

So an olde person has to coast to a stop, turn around slowly and peer at what they just left, I suppose. My mom has the habit of stopping just as she comes into a building from outside. I guess the change in lighting blinds her temporarily. So she stops, slowly removes her sunglasses and looks around, waiting for her eyes to adjust, while the people piling up behind her bump into each other and fall like dominoes. All the while she is oblivious, lol.

 

[baymule]

Red, I have done that too. I have the big people door on the coop with a tiny hole cut in the wire going to the run, with a people sized door in the end of the run. I have left the run door open on several occasions. But Paris, our Great Pyrenees is my saving grace. She patrols our yard and nothing and I mean nothing comes in our yard. LGD's are the way to go!

 

[ninnymary]

Be careful with those automated chicken doors. I loved mine for 1 1/2 yrs. until it malfunctioned last November. The door didn't close and a racoon got my speckle sussex that was at point of lay. I was devastated since she was my favorite. Checked into repairing it but by then I had lost my trust. Had my husband build an attached small run that is fully enclosed with hardware cloth.

Now, I sleep much better.

Mary