Escaped Hamster
Discussion
Belongs to my 12 year old daughter who has only had it 3 weeks. Her mum is off to tell her now and she will be distraught.
Looks like the water bottle wasn't fastened securely and it must of got out last night but as she sleeps all day we have only just realised that's she has gone. I have just returned from a week's trip away so the house is in it's usual tip and I could not even begin to imagine where she has got to.
It's been suggested that I should quietly watch telly till late with her cage door open and she might return, any other tips?
Cheers.
Looks like the water bottle wasn't fastened securely and it must of got out last night but as she sleeps all day we have only just realised that's she has gone. I have just returned from a week's trip away so the house is in it's usual tip and I could not even begin to imagine where she has got to.
It's been suggested that I should quietly watch telly till late with her cage door open and she might return, any other tips?
Cheers.
SWMBO says:
You set up a bucket (small metal waste paper basket etc) with some books (or something similar) so that the books make steps up to the top of the bucket. You leave a small trail of something e.g. cooked frozen peas across the floor leading to your 'steps'. You smear the books with crushed peas and put some in the bucket. The trap is set! It's worked for me before.
Don't use too big a trail of food or the hamster will be full up before it falls into the bucket.
You set up a bucket (small metal waste paper basket etc) with some books (or something similar) so that the books make steps up to the top of the bucket. You leave a small trail of something e.g. cooked frozen peas across the floor leading to your 'steps'. You smear the books with crushed peas and put some in the bucket. The trap is set! It's worked for me before.
Don't use too big a trail of food or the hamster will be full up before it falls into the bucket.
Talking to someone over the weekend who said one of the teachers at her daughters school had got a hamster for a group of school leavers who had learning difficulties to help them understand the responsibility of looking after a pet.
She took it home during the first holidays and the hamster escaped. It has apparently been running around her house for 7 weeks so far, coming out and getting the food she is leaving for it and disappearing again.
I had one when I was a kid that used to escape, I usually found him in a drawer hidden amongst my clothes.
She took it home during the first holidays and the hamster escaped. It has apparently been running around her house for 7 weeks so far, coming out and getting the food she is leaving for it and disappearing again.
I had one when I was a kid that used to escape, I usually found him in a drawer hidden amongst my clothes.
ds.Well, my daughter made steps out of books going up to the hamsters cage with food on every step as well as food in a bowl in the cage which is all gone this morning 
Looks like the little bugger is hiding out during the day and coming back for food at night. I'll try the bucket trap tonight.
Looks like the little bugger is hiding out during the day and coming back for food at night. I'll try the bucket trap tonight.
a few years ago we had a pet rat stuck behind a kitchen cupboard, it had escaped and got in under the fridge and managed to get all the way round to the other side of the kitchen cupboards, we tried for hours to get it out and eventually had to saw holes into the back of one of the cupboards to grab it, the kitchen had only just been put in as well!!
She just came out whilst I was dozing in front of the telly. Made me jump and she disappeared under the sofa. I got up slowly to go and close the lounge doors but she made a run for it between my legs, stopped at the the door, turned to look at me while I stayed as still as possible but then she ran to the kitchen and went for a crack in the splash board under the kitchen cabinets.
I have made a set of steps out of books with food on each step up to her cage again but this time there is a bucket between the last step and her home.
I have made a set of steps out of books with food on each step up to her cage again but this time there is a bucket between the last step and her home.
mrsxllifts said:
Can a humane mouse trap be deployed on Operation Hampster?
That's what we did. Had one living semi-wild in our student house, but we used to leave the trap out every now and again so we could check on it. In the end it used to climb up the sofa to it's old house to get food from it's old cage. We discovered that the coffee table was a good semmi-open cage for it as it wouldn't jump off it, presumably judging it too be too high.Anyway - we had a trap like this. When they get to one end it tips up and shuts the door.
Gassing Station | All Creatures Great & Small | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff