Lost Hamster

[ClaphamGT3]

Hi all. Travelling back from holiday and just got a message from the 17 year-old girl looking after our daughters Hamster. Basically, she has lost it. Annoying thing is that this, it transpires, was yesterday morning and she only told us this morning and we had builders in and out of the house yesterday.

Our cleaning lady has kindly gone straight over and is turning the place upside down to find the little fella. Amy tips for particularly hamster-attracting foods to get him out of any hiding place?

[liner33]

Best to look at night , check the wardrobes etc , they love to make a nest out of somewhere warm

Best to look early evening when they are most active

Also make 1000% sure that the house sitter is telling you the truth and that its really lost and not dead , when I was a kid my mum told me the gerbil had escaped when it had shuffled off this mortal coil , cue weeks and months of me trying to find it

[ClaphamGT3]

Thanks. Fear the pet sitter lying option is all too likely given that she got her mother to phone my wife...

[Roofless Toothless]

I think the hamster's been spotted in the Lounge.

[cuprabob]

Do you live in close proximity to Freddie Starr?

[Hub]

Just buy another - that's what my mum did when my sister's went AWOL.

Was fine until the original turned up - "mummy why are there two hamsters?" The original had a burnt back from his adventure in the gas fire/boiler and was incredibly grumpy thereafter!

[Sheepshanks]

How old is it? They don't last long anyway.

You can make a trap with a bucket, stack of books and ruler with some bait on it.

[williaa68]

Cheese is good, ideally something strong smelling. As noted above they are basically nocturnal so more chance in the evening

[Boosted LS1]

They can sometimes slip through bathroom pipework into the cavity wall. They may come back in a week or so with very sore feet.

[Pistom]

There seem to be a lot of hamsters going missing.

I'd just get a new one.

[Nightmare]

Search in boots and shoes.....I had a couple of hamster when I was young that pretty much lived wherever they wanted - which admittedly was their cage for 90% of the time - and they did like making little nests in the ends of footwear when out and about

[Fastpedeller]

Leave it's cage accessible with some food in it - it knows where it's well off and will return!

[mybrainhurts]

I just heard the cat burp...

[Fastpedeller]

Has it returned yet?

[ClaphamGT3]

Sadly no

[mybrainhurts]

It's playing with you....