With his third owner, he spent a lot of time opening and closing doors within the apartment, wishing that this time they would open to somewhere-- anywhere-- else.
He's too drugged for that these days, the Class Cs and Class Js and Class Ms he needs to be a happy domesticated sophont don't leave him able to imagine a door that opens somewhere else. Which is the idea, of course. But when the door to the kitchen opens to somewhere that isn't the kitchen at all, he remembers just enough to go through.