A valuable experiment?

I am still working on a borrowed laptop, so no video ..... probably would have to wait till December to get a new one.

Would like to share an "experiment" with u. I had ensured that all the doors were closed before allowing it to happen......... but I wont' recommend anyone to try.......

Today, I arrived home at around 9pm, when I opened the door and had yet to close the gate, Goldie was running towards me, so I just stepped in and see what she would do. In the past, she would stop in front of the gate and sit there. But today, she had decided to go on an exploration.

Timidly, she stepped out of the gate, stepped on the doormat and looked around. Then she moved a little bit further out. I immediately put down my bags, stepped out into the public corridor, thinking that if I pretend to be an outsider, she would dash back in.

However, she continued to walk down 2 units and sniffed at the gate of our neighbor as if she wanted to go in. I called her name and asked her to come back. May be this had surprised her, and she sought of turned scared. Started running at top speed straight ahead to the fire door. I opened our gate a bit wider, hoping that she could see it and go back home.

Don’t know whether it was because she was too tense, she just kept running at full speed to the end of the corridor, I tried to block her but failed. She then ran back towards the fire door again, but this time, with the speed, she jumped up high to around 3-4 feet, trying to push open the door, but failed. Finally, I managed to grab her by the dress she was wearing (as in the photo) and our maid managed to catch her and took her back home.

Once back home, she seemed very scared. Looking for places to hide. Of course, I got scolded, but I didn’t scold Goldie. It took her some 5 minutes to slowly calm down. I just told Goldie, that she didn’t know the way back home, so she mustn’t go out again. At around 9.30pm, after they had their midnight snack, Kitty pissed/scolded Goldie on my behalf…


Things, which I had observed:

-         When they are frightened, they seemed to just look ahead and dash, hence could miss the way back home.

-         Need more than I person to catch them when they turn wild.

-    Their behaviour are highly unpredictable when in crisis.