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Old 01-14-2014, 09:36 PM   #1
lasttype40
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Default Hamster on the loose!

Just going back to bed now after a hectic half hour. Woke up randomly in the night so decided to go grab a drink, I go downstairs and the hamster's gone from its cage! After ages of panicking and narrowing down where she might be, I hold out a treat behind the bookcase and she just saunters up into view, eats it, and waits there to be put back in her cage.
Panic averted but ohmygod, the fuzzy little escape artist. I should /not/ have called her Houdini, as apparently she's trying to live up to the name.

Any stories of fugitive fluffies?
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Old 01-14-2014, 09:58 PM   #2
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LOL whew! I wonder if they know we worry and think we're crazy for it? I remember Peaches getting out of her cage in the front room while we were in the back room. We wouldn't have known except that she came down the hallway and found us
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Old 01-15-2014, 12:24 AM   #3
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My hamster's escaped from her ball twice now. It's really not that hard since the lid is kind of loose, but still. Nothing like looking down and finding an empty ball.
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Old 01-15-2014, 12:55 AM   #4
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Pickford got out of her ball once (it's taped now). My OH was sat on the sofa and suddenly saw something moving by his feet. Quick as a flash he grabbed her.
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Old 01-15-2014, 02:35 AM   #5
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My first hamster made it out of her cage ones, we couldn't find her for a week. I had already givin up all hope when we found her droppings right by a tiny hole behind an unmovable bookcase. She was perfectly fine. I still don't know how she survived behind there so long!
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Old 01-15-2014, 02:53 AM   #6
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My male Titan has had three escapes, twice because he chewed his way out and once because I forgot to put the end cap on the tube opening. One time he managed to get up on some shelving on the wall (no idea how) and the other two times he was lurking behind the bed in the spare room, but trotted happily out to me when I called his name and shook the mealy worm tub. Maple my female has escaped once, I suspect she was loose for about an hour and a half. After almost emptying the room that she was in to try and find her, she was found squished between the wall and some furniture, obviously having some high and mighty ideas about where she was able to fit. Recaptured in the end but who knows she could have gotten anywhere :P naughty little thing.
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Old 01-15-2014, 04:13 AM   #7
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Luckily never had an escape but Nibbles got the door open and i.caught him and put it padlock.on the cage
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Old 01-15-2014, 04:36 AM   #8
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my Truffles, our teddy managed to open his sliding door and jumped out. When my little sister went to give him food, she panicked when she found the door open and him gone. Well, everyone panicked because we got 2 cats in the house. After searching and searching, we found him wandering in the spare room; trying to run as our cat tries to lick the life our of him. hahaha..He went back to his home, half-wet with cat saliva but very much alive from his expedition.

we're thankful that our cat already know that house mice and hammies were different just like how our dogs know that Guinea pigs are not wild rats.
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Old 01-15-2014, 06:48 AM   #9
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I will always remember the morning I went into the living room to see my Sammy sitting on top of the sofa watching me. Then followed by me in mass panic and diving for him to put him back in his cage.
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Old 01-15-2014, 08:33 AM   #10
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Goodness! Glad to hear they've had happy endings xD And I'd definitely have been panicking if I'd still have had a cat.
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