Our Mork, who is a ginger, did run away when he was that size. He slipped out when there were a bunch of people visiting and going in and out. I was still taking care of my dad at his home (which is where Mork was born) and found him just off the carport, hiding under a rosebush, scared to death. He goes out on our screened porch at times but never stays very long and any loud noise scares him right back in the house (Mindy too). On the rare occasions that a door has been accidentally left open and he has actually worked up the nerve to go outside, he freezes about 3 feet from the door until 1 of us tells him to get back in the house, and he then promptly turns around and hightails it back in.