Anyone got any ideas?

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Blueiz

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My girls hamster has escaped its cage. Im hoping to find it before my cats do. I have put food along the wall for it, sat its cage on the floor with the door open, and put a slice of apple out for it. My girl is going to be so upset if she comes home tommorow and "Rooster" isnt in his cage...

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks,
Blue
 
Remove any food it can access. Take a bunch of books and build a set of stairs. Then get a tall box and lay it on the "stairs". Put a few peices of food on the stairs going towards the box(not too much) then a small handfull of food at the bottom of the box. You have to make sure the box is tilted enough that it cant climb back out, but not so much that it will fall and get hurt. Also, it will be able to chew through cardboard, so you have to make sure you catch it when it first gets in, good luck :)
 
Did you put the food along the wall where the cat can get to it? That may not be a good thing....Rooster eating, cat comes along and eats too :devil: , our hamster (Emily) was loose for almost a week once luckily the cat never got too her, but lordy she looked like she had been through a tornado or something when I did find her!!

Good luck
 
Thanks all for your help. Rooster is now safely back in his home..

I looked high and low all day for him. Turned up nothing. I was watching my female cat and she kept going to a place in my office by the bookcase. There was a bag sitting beside it that I had looked in three times already, I got up and looked in it again..nothing. Then it dawned on me, underneath the bookcase was hollow, only has molding across the front. Sure enough, I moved the bookcase and there he was..:D.

He's already looking for a way out again. I should have known he was going to be an escape artist when I bought him. Was on my way home from the pet store with him (a 45 min drive) and he chewed through the box he was put in. Had to pull off the road, assemble his cage and put him in it...

Thank goodness my girl will be none the wiser..she sure does love Rooster...

Thanks for your responses :)

Blue
 
Good thing you found him. When I was a kid, our cat got our escaped gerbil. I'd consider getting a more secure cage though, seeing as you don't want him to get out again.
 
i had put him in a ten g aquarium yesterday. The plastic strip on the back of the glass top has about an inch and a hlaf cut out in it to make room for the waterer. Either he pushed the waterer over, or I wasnt careful when I placed in in the cage.

He's back in his original wire cage for now, until I can get another screen type like I have on my females tank. The wire cage is smaller than the ten g tank..

Thanks!

Blue
 
Very glad to hear rooster was found :dance2: By the way the replacement method isn't always a good idea unless you know for sure he is "gone"...did this once with my sons that got loose and low and behold 2 day's later the "real" Bandit showed up!!!!!
 
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