Help! My hampster excaped! Where could he be?!

[Nava]

look behind the dryer, there he is.

 

[silkiechicken]

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My first hamster as a child did that... except he skipped the moving of bedding.. instead he chewed a hole into my mom's leather couch and went in....

One very unhappy mom...we have that couch to this day. LOL

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

Wow! Thanks guys! And we do have a niosy wheel, and a hole.in the wall in out bathroom! I have no idea how he got out! My mom said let the cat looose and be done

she cares nothing for him

I hope I find him! Luckily we dont have inside cats! I will put the wheel on my bed room floor, my rooms a mess so he probably made a nest in my cloths!

yesterday I caught him chewing on my incubator on my floor! I could have stepen him! Im afraid to step anywhere on my floor so I dont step on him... We dont have a inside dog, so no food laying around... I will set some food, and water, it small bowls he can reach in, next to the wheel! Thanks guys! Will give you a update!

 

[momma of a chicken lover]

3 rodent escapees in my life time. 1) under the furnace-glad it was summer. 2) behind the washer/dryer 3) behind the washer/dryer. We looked closely on the hall floor and then the stairs - and lo and behold - tiny rodent poos - a trail to follow.... All were found alive and well and lived full lives.

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

Well, good news and bad! Bad news, the other three in that cage got out to

good news is I found them all! Thank gosh! Thanks again for such awesome advice though!

 

[Southernbelle]

As you probably know, hamsters are not truly nocturnal. They have 2 main time periods where they have a burst of activity - around sunrise and sunset where they would gather food for the day, so those times of day are excellent times to look for your hamster. Look for him running along hallways or along walls.

When I was a teenager we had 2 major break-outs:

1st - 1 escapee - lost for a few days. I had a dream she was in the downstairs coat closet in a shoe and weirdly enough - that's where she was! She'd also managed to aquire a stash of goodies in that shoe.

2nd - mother and her entire litter of half-grown baby hamsters escaped

(my parents were very displeased). Somehow my father heard scratching in the wall. He isolated the sound and removed the medicine cabinet in the downstairs powder room and the mother and all her younguns tumbled out. They got into the wall because my father had removed the plumbing access panel on the upstairs bathroom and they all went exploring. Not surprisingly, that was the end of hamster-keeping in my parents house.

A few years ago, my son had a hamster escape for a few hours, but we found her. She was running along the wall in the den at sunset.

I agree with Silkie chicken about glass cages with locking tops. Hamsters are good climbers!

 

[sunny & the 5 egg layers]

Back in the day when I was in Elemetary School, we used to have a class pet hampster and each student was able to take the pet hamster home with them for one weekend. The weekend I had it the hamster, me and my brother were playing with it on the kitchen floor when all of a sudden I remember us looking at each other and we realized that the hamster disapeared! It was GONE! The class hamster was GONE and WE lost it in our HOUSE! We looked and looked and found out it ended up going in a tiny (I mean tiny) hole near the stove. We waited nearly all day (5 hours) By the hole waiting for the hamster to come out. Finally he came out and then we could laugh about it!

 

[Snowygirl]

under a chair.

i lost a hamster and i looked under a chair there he was!

 

[StupidBird]

also look for them under the trimwork of kitchen and bathroom cabinets. My son had a Houdini...

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

If I were a hamster, I'd be hiding in a suitcase destined to Jamaica!