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Hammy_Newbie · 06-27-2021, 02:40 AM

Definitely try the bucket trap! I recaptured our hamster using that and she had gone under the floorboards. It’s such a long drop down as my house is on a slope that I wasn’t even sure she’d be able to get back even if she wanted to, so I pulled up some floorboards at the front of the house and laid two bucket traps - one by the taken up floorboards and one where she had originally found a hole and escaped.

I laid them at night and put trails of seeds leading to the staircase made of books then just put broccoli, cucumber and more seeds in the bucket. When I came down the following morning she was in the bucket by the original hole - I have never been so happy and relieved! She had the biggest drink of water when I put her back in the cage and had a few small cuts to her feet but was otherwise unharmed.

Good luck and I hope you managed to recapture him!

06-27-2021, 02:40 AM
Hammy_Newbie Hamster Pup Join Date: Mar 2020 Posts: 55	Re: Help!! Hamster escaped!! Definitely try the bucket trap! I recaptured our hamster using that and she had gone under the floorboards. It’s such a long drop down as my house is on a slope that I wasn’t even sure she’d be able to get back even if she wanted to, so I pulled up some floorboards at the front of the house and laid two bucket traps - one by the taken up floorboards and one where she had originally found a hole and escaped. I laid them at night and put trails of seeds leading to the staircase made of books then just put broccoli, cucumber and more seeds in the bucket. When I came down the following morning she was in the bucket by the original hole - I have never been so happy and relieved! She had the biggest drink of water when I put her back in the cage and had a few small cuts to her feet but was otherwise unharmed. Good luck and I hope you managed to recapture him!