Going Senile

[Willow Wisp]

Me that is, not the hams

Both the hammie cages are on tables with shelves under them. I store their playpen toys etc on the shelves. After the girls have finished using their exercise balls I rinse them out and store them, with the lids off, on the shelf too.

As is usual for me, I got up this morning, gave the dogs their breakfast and then settled with my first cup of coffee of the day to have a quick catch up on HC
There was movement, something caught the corner of my eye.......
There on the table shelf, under Ebonys cage, something was moving......

WILLOW, it was Willow......
She had climbed onto the shelf and then into her open ball, and she was either trying to climb back out of it again, or run in it, but because both doors were off the ball didn't move so she was stuck. And yes the ball she chose to climb into was her one and not Ebonys one, which was standing next to hers, she knew the difference in the balls too LOL.

The thing is, I hadn't let her out of her cage, but her door was open, I must have forgotten to close it last night when I put her back from the playpen.
I honestly am going senile, I left her cage door open a few weeks ago too, all day that time

Willow is a very very good girl, instead of running away, or hiding, or getting into mischief, she found her ball and wanted to play How long she had been out of her cage, or stuck in her ball I have no idea
She wasn't stressed or tired. I've just put her back in her cage, and CLOSED the door, she had a little mooch around, opened some treat toys and pouched the goodies, ran on her saucer for a few minutes and now she has gone to bed

Once again how very lucky am I?
If that had been Ebonys cage I had left open then she would have gotten herself into all sorts of naughtiness and mischief and would probably be missing for days!

I thought I had gotten myself into the habit of double checking the hammie cage doors, but it looks like I didn't do it last night
This is where I found my gorgeous girl

[CPalmer]

OH dear! What a good hammy! Freya would have been straight into the sofa and making a new nest out of our expensive seat lol

[cypher]

Willow is such an amazingly good girl bless her!
That's the problem with these things we do out of habit, we don't really know if we did or not... I'm totally OC about it now, drives me nuts!

[Pebbles82]

I don't think it is going senile, just one of those things - when I've been really tired I've gone to bed and realised I haven't closed the cage door after putting food in. I wonder if Charlie would actually come out of his cage. Sometimes I leave the door open all evening and he doesn't come out! But maybe when he's on his own at night he might.

[Libbys Baby]

Oh Gracious! I say, Meggie (RIP) once got out. Where was she? In my wardrobe, happily snuggled in between my stuffed animals. Baby has not escaped as of yet, but if she did, I would go crazy! I just hoovered, I don't need my house covered in hamster faeces ! Willow is such a good girl, make sure you don't let that slide!

~Libby.

[DrKMcK]

I guess it's happened to all of us at some time or another. That bit about the corner of your eye? ... I know that one. I had that happen one night when I saw something on the dresser where Ted E's cages are. Yep! It was Ted E. bear! I had left his door open and I am just lucky I saw him before he fell 3 1/2 feet to the floor. Now I do something new to make sure I don't forget...I use a twist tie on the cage door for both Ted E. and Nutmeg. It wouldn't really hold the door closed, it's just something I now am in the habit of and it seems to have worked. I haven't left a door open since I started doing the ties.

[velma]

I've got a horrible cold at the moment so the boyfriend has been on ham duty. I went in the room the other day to get something & found he'd left Hector's cage open all night. Luckily he's too small to get out but if that had been Cleo... Boy, would there have been trouble!

[Thin Lizzy]

Wow what an amazing hamster Willow is, she just wanted to play and picking the right ball is a very clever cookie.
I've left Twinkle's cage open, it was only to go and get new bedding I'd bought, gone less than 10 minutes and came back to her sitting on top of her cage having a nosey she's a little minx lol.