got the fright of my life...

shell1805 · 03-21-2012, 02:25 PM

snowy was having her nightly run around in her ball while me and the hubby was having dinner tonight (it's so lovely, when i get home from work now she is already waiting by her cage door to come out

)and it went very quiet. hubby went to find her only to call out 'come look at this'....

she had somehow got her ball open and was sitting on my bathroom matt

(we live in a flat) how lucky was i, that my gorgeous girly hadn't darted somewhere. she calmly let me get her aswell, she didn't dash away *phew*

not letting her out of my sight now, little madam

xxx

sakuraheart · 03-21-2012, 02:28 PM

Oh dear little houdini! My mum's hammie Sassy has a new nightly escape from the ball routine...so we know how it is....she goes for a little trot around the room

moonie · 03-21-2012, 02:28 PM

Thank goodness you found Snowy alive and well. It could have got pretty bad as these little creatures love to explore and look around.

My hamster squeezed his body up and slid underneath the closet. Good thing I saw or else I would not know where to go looking for him.

When I went to go to look, he was sitting in the corner and looking at my spare purse as if wondering how to use it as a spare nest, LOL!

shell1805 · 03-21-2012, 02:32 PM

it was pretty eye opening, both me and my hubby were shocked and so glad little lady was still somewhere we could see. was a difinate heart in mouth moment x

Kissa · 03-21-2012, 02:36 PM

My Darla escaped recently. After a worry-filled night, I found her in the morning... in a bag of dirty substrate in a cold cupboard

Hamsters do the darndest things

gutterglitterxx · 03-21-2012, 02:47 PM

That happened with my Cheeto one night too. I actually had her in the hallway outside my room on the HamTrac while I was cleaning her cage. Luckily I'm obsessive-compulsive about checking on her, because she knocked the ball open too but she didn't get very far. I scooped her right up!

shell1805 · 03-21-2012, 02:58 PM

she's in the ball again now... every time she goes quiet i end up running to check on her lol x

gutterglitterxx · 03-22-2012, 07:18 AM

I have to admit I put a piece of tape on the outside of the door when she uses her ball now.

I had an incident of a small part of a Habitrail habitat being left open one night when I had Fluffy. She ended up on a 24ish hour excursion. I was devastated, thought for sure she was gone. Then my mom woke me up at like 6am the following day saying she swore she heard something in the computer room. I went in there, shut the door, turned off all the lights, sat down on the floor and listened intently for a few minutes. Sure enough, I heard a scratching coming from the closet. I turned the light on, opened the closet door, and there she was sitting in the floor grooming herself! I was SO happy to see her, and to see her unharmed. Little lady must have had quite an adventure!

So anyway, I refuse to risk another incident like that with Cheeto (or Roxy of she ends up liking the ball.)

Kissa · 03-22-2012, 09:10 AM

I have never used a ball without taping the lid shut. Learned that lesson with my Grandad's Syrian years ago

Luckily Pippin was very tame, and they didn't have any other pets, and he couldn't get out of the kitchen

Hammymad · 03-22-2012, 09:14 AM

Yes this has happened to me a couple of times.It was Rambo and Holly who got out and ever since then I tape their balls up just to be on the safe side and it's not happened again

They are little escape artists lol xxx