Our first trip with our loving cat went just fine until we forgot to close the screen door. We did not know what to do when she sauntered down and went into the Oregon salal shrubbery. Frantic was not the word. After about 45 minutes we spotted her three sites away, but then gone again. I went back to just sit and wait it out. After 90 minutes she shot out of the salal, up the TC steps and smacked into the screen trying to get back in. She has never been out again, but comes with us every time for up to 5 weeks at least once.