I have lost the hamster!! updated post 42..no news yet

[Girlsontour]

Got up this morning and the Hamster had discovered that i had not put one of the tops on his cage quite tight enough and has made a bid for freedom!! Unfortunatly he is kept in the bathroom at night and we think he has got through a small hole into the gap between the floor boards.

At this moment there is a very irate husband moving the free standing bath, cutting a hole in the floor boards and i am hoping that the hamster will come back to his cage tonight for food!

DH is very, very annoyed and there is a lot of huffing and puffing going on

I hope he comes back because i feel awful that it was me that allowed him to escape.

 

[Minniespal]

Poor hamster and poor DH. Hope you find him.

 

[The Fetherstons]

Ahhh I hope you find him

 

[Strommie]

Hope you find him

 

[Belle68]

Poor Hamster, hope you find him and as for DH what is it with men!

 

[PoppyAnna]

Fingers crossed that you find your hamster.......

 

[Girlsontour]

Lucy is now sat in the bath rattling his food in a dish! She says she can hear him running about - quite how we are going to catch him we have no idea My brother has a humane mouse trap so if he doesn't appear tonight i am going to try that tomorrow.

 

[jjk]

hope you find him

 

[Deedee]

Oh no, i am sorry but i have had to smile as we have been there. We had a robrovski (i think thats how you spell it!!!) hamster a few months ago but no one told us how fast they are and how high they jump!!!!!!. We took the lid off his cage to start handling him and he jumped straight out ran and jumped off the bed then under the bed. It is a draw divan so there is only a couple of inches gap. We ended up taking the bed apart and then the little monkey ran behind my wardrobe.Dh was down the side with a box while i was round the back with a feather duster trying to coax him out LOL Its quite hysterical thinking about how a 2" hamster had 3 grown adults on the run for almost 2 hours. I hope your hamster comes back soon and you and DH will be able to laugh about this in a few days

 

[MinnieMouse73]

Get a bucket (with some food in the bottom) and tip it on its side, rested on some books so it's slanted. The hamster can climb up the books, slide down into the bucket for the food, but then won't be able to get back up the bucket and get out.

Put some bedding in there and he may well be tucked up asleep in the morning. Also it's best to use some books you don't want (e.g. phone book) in case the hamster has a nibble first!

 

[Pinky166]

Oh no what a nightmare! Hope he appears soon before your DH gets to mad!

 

[Nubbedy]

Don't mean to laugh, but can't help it! Brings back memories of when I brought the school hamster home for the weekend to look after him, and he escaped and hid behind my parent's very large, very heavy, very full dining room cabinet. They had to empty everything out of every cupboard to be able to move it forward and get Hammy out.

I was distraught - I had visions of having to go to school on the Monday and tell everyone I had lost the hamster. Luckily we got him, but I think the whole process probably took about 6 hours.

I wasn't allowed to borrow the hamster again.

Good luck with your search - hope the little guy turns up safe this morning.

Sara.

 

[mandymouse]

Oh no, I hope he's turned up this morning

 

[jockey]

Any news on the hamster this morning, I do hope you have found him

 

[Ware Bears]

OMG, hope you've found him.

 

[Snowy-girls]

Oh no-sorry but i also laughed when you described what dh was doing.Hope you have found hammy this morning?.x.

 

[Belle68]

Did you manage to find your hamster , I hope DH is also calmer this morning

 

[Danauk]

I hope you found him and he is OK. If not it might take a few days. One of the classes at my school has a pet hampster which escaped, it took 3 days to catch, in the end the poor caretaker had to dismantle a set of drawers that the children use for their trays. We could hear the hampster running up and down behind the drawers but could not get to him!
It remninds me as well of the day my classes pet gerbil escaped in class whilst the children were cleaning him out. I had all the children sitting with their feet up on the desks whilst 4 of them crawled around on the floor trying to trap him! Luckily they got him within 5 minutes and he didn't try to hide anywhere!!

 

[Girlsontour]

I must admit, even though i am upset that it was my fault, i couldn't help but grin when DH was sawing away at the floor boards....all i kept thinking is "what if we ever come to sell the house!!". No sign of him - i didn't hear him running about during the night (which i thought i would)...just hope he hasn't gone to Hamster Heaven! Am going to set the humane mouse trap tonight but it doesn't look very hopeful.

Andy has taken out some of the plasterboard wall in the downstairs toilet by the pipe that leads from the bathroom in case he had fallen down but he's not there. So now as well as about 2 square foot of hole in the bathroom, i have half a wall in the downstairs loo!!!!

 

[Belle68]

Oh dear, these little creatures sure can cause havac, but at least your still laughing about it. I hope you have better luck tonight