First nights are always the worst...I hope you both continue to impress each other! Seems like you all really needed this, Otis included.
Especially first nights with thunder and lightning crashing most of the night. . . .he was fine. OR maybe I just slept like a rock? Lol
He had zero issues going in and out of the cage. We brought it in around dinner time. He doesn't whine and beg. He just sits next to you and stares. I'm thinking he has seen table scraps before.
So he was in the cage while we ate. We let the door open after dinner and he spent the night wandering in and out of it. Come bedtime, closing the door and leaving him in there was zero issue. Talk about a blessing!
Our kids would half enter the cage to give him loving while he was chilling. Lol