A crisis erupted this morning when Kiki discovered that her beloved hamster is missing. Apparently last night Kiki popped out the plastic from one of the habitrail expansion spots so she could see the hamster better. Then we all went to bed. I’m sure it didn’t take the hamster long to discover the hole and disappear out of it. Unfortunately the cage was on top of a dresser, so once the hamter got down there was zero chance that it could return.
We had weeping and sadness. We frantically poked in corners and cleaned the room just in case. Now we’ve placed the cage with food down on the floor in the hopes that the hamster will return. If we can get the hamster coming back for food and water then her eventual recapture is inevitable. If I had live mouse traps I’d set those all over the house, but I don’t know where to get any without spending money. Usually I want the small rodents in my house dead not alive.
What surprised me in this event was my own reaction. I actually like and miss the little hamster. I was having fun guiding Kiki through the process of hand-taming. I was anticpating having a really tame and friendly hamster. Patches is sad too. He’d taken to going to visit the hamster 2 or 3 times a day. In fact the room that Gleek and Kiki share had been relabelled in Patches head as “the hamster room.” For now I just hope that the hamster comes back to eat.
Don’t worry too much yet. My experience with hamsters is that they don’t generally range too far when they escape (and that they are much less destructive escapees than gerbils… My hamsters would undog the latches ont the cage. My gerbils would gnaw holes in the cages.)
You may find it at night (or under and inside of furniture during the day.)
The onlu escapee hamster I’ve had roam far at all was a dwarf hamster (they have nasty dispositions) who was running from my cat. (I don’t blame it for roaming in that situation.) It got up in the framework of the couch.
Oh how sad, and so soon after the hamster joined the household, too. I hope you find it soon.