I thought she was dead

LadyPikachu · 01-12-2015, 06:31 AM

I woke up this morning, and the same as every morning went to check on my furry friend who is next to my bed. I called her name.. to my confusion she didn't poke her head out of her house like she usually does. I opened her cage and ruffled her substrate which usually gets her to come say hello when she's super sleepy.. nothing.. she wasn't in her house. I checked both her other nests she's made.. nothing.

I checked everywhere in her cage.. Then I remembered her tubes.. I found her.. she was in the corner of one of her tubes.. bent in half, mouth open and motionless. I tried to stay calm, and tapped the tube to try and wake her hoping she was sleeping. No movement.

At this point I felt the tears welling up, and I found myself shouting " NO NO NO NO NO PLEASE NO " at 6am .. while trying to release the tubes. I was shaking to much so wasn't moving them much at all. After a few seconds of shouting.. Pikachu suddenly sprung to life.. fell down the tube and sat looking at me like "MUM. I WAS SLEEPING. WHAT THE HELL MUM."

She has a habit of walking up to her penthouse first thing in the morning when she's half asleep.. I guess this time she didn't make it to the penthouse before crashing. She gave me quite the scare. Silly moo.

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BrainGirl · 01-12-2015, 08:45 AM

Hahaha I couldn't help laughing! I've had some nasty scares. One of my past hams had a habit of crashing out face down in the bedding wherever she happened to be. The first time it happened I reached in and touched her and she flipped on her back screeching. Nearly gave me a heart attack!

Bbhami · 01-12-2015, 09:04 AM

I feel the same when one of the robos won't wake up when I call them. They've become too comfortable in their tanks and would sleep through any sound. One time I was calling Louie and he wasn't budging. I opened his tank and picked him up, he wasn't moving. Took him around 5 seconds to wake up AFTER I lifted him! I was so scared! My SO also thought he's dead.

Shannonmcn · 01-12-2015, 12:58 PM

I've been there too, my previous ham got freaked out once and wouldn't move from her tube for like 20 minutes, just enough time for me to convince myself she'd had a stroke. She was fine, it was apparently just her way of telling me I stank of cocker spaniel

Oatmeal_Cupcake · 01-12-2015, 01:47 PM

I'm sorry, that must have been a terrible scare for you. I'm really glad that she was simply in a deep sleep. Sounds like some cuddles, love and playtime is in order.

velma · 01-12-2015, 03:38 PM

Poor you! Horrible, isn't it? Weirdly enough, Hector just did this to me. Even if he doesn't come out when I rustle his bedding he still pokes his nose out but just went down to see them & nothing. For ages. And hardly any of his food was gone. Panic! I had to poke something near his nest (which is under a shelf) in the end. When he did come out he wa super skittish so I obviously disturbed him from a deep sleep. I think he might be sulking cos it was cage cleaning day yesterday. Silly Hector.

Thin Lizzy · 01-12-2015, 10:08 PM

What a crazy hammy. I did laugh when I realised she was OK. But, I think we can all relate to it, your heart's in your mouth and you feel the colour drain from your face.
Such a horrible feeling and it feels like everything around you is going in slow motion.
Pikachu falling down the tubes is funny! That's an alarm call she won't want to repeat.